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N.Y., N.H. & HARTFORD R.R. CO. v. U.S.

No. 96.

258 U.S. 32 (1922)

NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 27, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. S.S. Ashbaugh, with whom Mr. E.G. Buckland and Mr. A.P. Russell were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a claim for $5,020.65 as the claimant's proportion of joint through express rates for carrying $5,000,000 in gold from Philadelphia to Boston, and the passenger fares for seven men who accompanied the gold as guards from New York to Springfield, Massachusetts, that being the distance that the claimant carried the gold. The Court of Claims ordered the petition to...

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