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BALT. & OHIO R.R. v. UNITED STATES

No. 305.

261 U.S. 592 (1923)

43 S.Ct. 425

67 L.Ed. 816

BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 9, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John F. McCarron, with whom Mr. George E. Hamilton was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, appeared for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Railway Company filed its petition, under the Dent Act (March 2, 1919, c. 94, 40 Stat. 1272), to recover compensation for constructing temporary barracks for the use of United States troops under an "implied agreement" alleged to have been entered into by it with the United States, in December, 1917, through Col. Kimball, Expeditionary Quartermaster of the War Department, at Locust Point, Baltimore, Maryland...

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