CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 50422.

145 F.Supp. 536 (1956)

CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY CO. v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

November 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian C. Sipple, Savannah, Ga., for plaintiff.

Curtis L. Wagner, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant. Lawrence S. Smith, Washington, D. C., was on the briefs.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.


MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff sues to recover $14,076 of transportation charges admittedly earned by it in the carriage of goods for the Government. The Government deducted the $14,076 from its payment to the plaintiff because, it says, the plaintiff lost, from a prior shipment, 40 bales of army coats, each bale containing 30 coats, each coat worth $11.73, the total value thus being $14,076.

We held, in prior proceedings in this case, that the coats had been...

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