BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 186-52, 275-55.

169 F.Supp. 957 (1959)

BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

January 14, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Corber, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs. Chester A. Prior, Boston, Mass., Cake & Negus and Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D. C., on the brief.

Curtis L. Wagner, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn., Asst. Atty. Gen. George Cochran Doub, for defendant.


MADDEN, Judge.

Each of the plaintiffs transported freight for the United States, submitted its bills therefor, and was paid the amounts shown on the bills. These bills were based upon the applicable minimum charge for freight cars of the length actually used for the transportation. In the cases here involved, the Government's agents had ordered shorter cars, and the shorter cars ordered would have been long enough to contain the goods actually shipped. Years later...

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