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UNITED STATES v. READING CO.

Nos. 401, 402, 403, 404, 398, 399, 400, 499, 500, 36.

270 U.S. 320 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 267

70 L.Ed. 606

UNITED STATES v. READING COMPANY. READING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. ST. LOUIS, BROWNSVILLE & MEXICO RAILWAY COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. NEW ENGLAND STEAMSHIP COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY. (2 cases.) PERE MARQUETTE RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J. Harry Covington, with whom Messrs. Spencer Gordon, Alexander Britton, and Lawrence H. Cake were on the briefs, for the appellant in No. 36 and the appellees in Nos. 403 and 404.

Mr. L.T. Michener, with whom Messrs. William L. Kinter and F. Carter Pope were on the brief, for the appellee in No. 401 and the appellant in No. 402, submitted.

Mr. Benjamin D. Winner, for the appellees in Nos. 398, 399, and 400.

Mr. John F. McCarron, with whom Mr. George E. Hamilton was on the brief, for the appellees in Nos. 499 and 500.

Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Assistant to the Solicitor General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell was on the briefs, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

No. 401.

The United States appeals from a judgment against it for $14,236.04. December 3, 1920, the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company, to which plaintiff, the Reading Company, is successor, brought this action to recover its charges for transportation of troops and military impedimenta by that company and connecting carriers prior to federal control of railroads. When the railroads were taken...

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