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WINSTON-SALEM SOUTHBOUND RY. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 49783.

152 F.Supp. 245 (1957)

WINSTON-SALEM SOUTHBOUND RAILWAY COMPANY v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 12, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mr. Lewis A. Dille, Kensington, Md., with whom was Mr. Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant. Mr. Paris T. Houston, Washington, D. C., on the brief.

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

JONES, Chief Judge.

On July 5, 1942, the defendant shipped several carloads of freight and passenger motor vehicles over the lines of plaintiff and connecting carriers under Government bills of lading from Leesville, Louisiana, to Ansonville, North Carolina. The railroad cars involved in this dispute exceeded 50 feet 8 inches in length. The actual weight of the vehicles shipped per car ranged from 12,240 pounds to 17,380 pounds, and the shipments could have been loaded...

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