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NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 42253.

18 F.Supp. 543 (1937)

NORTHERN PAC. RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

March 1, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis F. Lyons, of St. Paul, Minn. (McKenney, Flannery & Craighill, of Washington, D. C., and Charles W. Bunn and M. L. Countryman, Jr., both of St. Paul, Minn., on the brief), for plaintiff.

William W. Scott and Louis R. Mehlinger, both of Washington, D. C., and James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen. (George C. Sweeney, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for the United States.

Before BOOTH, Chief Justice, and GREEN, LITTLETON, WILLIAMS, and WHALEY, Judges.

WILLIAMS, Judge.

Plaintiff, the Northern Pacific Railway Company, prior to March, 1920, was operated by the Director General of Railroads under the provisions of the act of March 21, 1918 (40 Stat. 5451), commonly known as the Federal Control Act. By agreement between plaintiff and the Director General the annual compensation paid plaintiff during the period of federal control was fixed at $30,130,068.81.

Upon the termination of federal control plaintiff accepted...

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