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MO. PAC. R.R. v. UNITED STATES

No. 280.

271 U.S. 603 (1926)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederick H. Wood, with whom Mr. Thomas W. Gregory was on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. Randolph S. Collins, Attorney in the Department of Justice, were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

Appellant operates and, since June, 1917, has operated, a system of railroads which includes a number of land-grant lines in Missouri and other states. These lines received land grants in aid of their construction and are bound to carry the United States mails, under the provisions of land-grant acts, passed in 1852 and 1853, § 6, c. 45, 10 Stat. 8, 10; § 6, c. 59, 10 Stat. 155, 156, both of which...

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