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

No. 208.

261 U.S. 385 (1923)

BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 19, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Assistant to the Solicitor General, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Railroad Company filed its petition in the Court of Claims asking judgment for the amount of certain "extraordinary expenses" which it claimed to have incurred in constructing a branch railroad to the Ordnance Depot at Curtis Bay, Maryland, under "an informal or implied agreement" with officers of the War Department for the reimbursement of such expenses by the United States. The Dent Act, March 2, 1919,...

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