UNION PACIFIC R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 47643.

91 F.Supp. 762 (1950)

UNION PACIFIC R. CO. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 10, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Cake and Raymond A. Negus, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Mr. Louis R. Mehlinger, Washington, D. C., with whom was Assistant Attorney General H. G. Morison, for defendant. Lester C. Dibble, Mason City, Iowa, was on the brief.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and WHITAKER, LITTLETON, MADDEN and HOWELL, JJ.


JONES, Chief Judge.

The jeep, having been everywhere else, is now in court.

This case turns on whether the wartime jeep was primarily a passenger or a freight vehicle. The rates for transportation of the two classifications are different, the rate for the passenger classification being the higher.

The Official, Southern and Western Classification Committees, covering the entire country for the railroads, published the classification of the jeep as...

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