ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 183-52.

112 F.Supp. 594 (1953)

ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

June 2, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert R. Faulkner, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Laurence H. Axman, New York City, with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Warren E. Burger, for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and HOWELL, Judges


MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff sues the Government for freight charges earned by it in carrying goods for the Government, but not paid because they were set off by the Government's fiscal officers against alleged overcharges on an earlier shipment. Our question is whether there were overcharges on the earlier shipment.

In 1944 the Government ordered five open cars, each to be 40 feet long, to carry certain trailers from Mansfield, Louisiana. The trailers could...

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