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MISSOURI, KANS. & TEX. RY. v. UNITED STATES

No. 52.

256 U.S. 610 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 617

65 L.Ed. 1118

MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 6, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alexander Britton for appellant.

Mr. Frank Davis, Jr., Mr. J. Robert Anderson and Mr. Joseph Stewart, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a claim for $9,429.92 additional pay for carrying mails between July 1, 1912, and July 1, 1914. The claimant had been transporting them under an adjustment of compensation that expired on June 30, 1910. In contemplation of the usual quadrennial readjustment by weighing, the Postmaster General sent to the claimant the customary form of Distance Circulars to be filled out and to be accompanied by the latest...

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