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SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. v. U.S.

No. 285.

268 U.S. 263 (1925)

45 S.Ct. 500

69 L.Ed. 947

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 11, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William R. Harr, with whom Mr. Charles H. Bates was on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Merrill E. Otis, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom the Solicitor General was on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Southern Pacific Company, having carried certain persons as passengers at the request of the Government and received payment for such transportation at land-grant rates, brought this action to recover the difference between the rates thus paid and the full tariff rates. The Court of Claims, on its findings of fact, being of opinion that the claimant by its course of proceeding and acceptance of the land-grant...

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