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SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. v. U.S.

No. 613.

307 U.S. 393 (1939)

59 S.Ct. 923

83 L.Ed. 1363

SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James R. Bell for petitioner.

Assistant Attorney General Whitaker, with whom Solicitor General Jackson, and Messrs. Paul A. Sweeney, Warner W. Gardner, and Aaron B. Holman were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case involves the right of the Government to deduct from the public terminal-to-terminal tariffs of a railroad over a route, partly of land-grant aided mileage, identical with part of the mileage of another earlier constructed route of the same road between the same terminals, sums based upon the higher proportion of landgrant aided mileage in this latter route. On account of the importance of the question...

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