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KANSAS CITY SO. RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 154.

252 U.S. 147 (1920)

40 S.Ct. 257

64 L.Ed. 500

KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alex. Britton and Mr. Evans Browne for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Spellacy, Mr. Leonard B. Zeisler and Mr. Charles H. Weston, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, for the United States.

Mr. Benjamin Carter, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant, in its petition, alleges: That in June, 1906, it entered into contracts with the Post Office Department to transport the mails over three designated routes "upon the conditions prescribed by law and the regulations of the Department applicable to railroad mail service;" that during the fiscal year 1907 (the petition was not filed until December 19, 1912), the Department withheld from its stipulated...

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