UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

No. 592-57.

292 F.2d 521 (1961)

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Guandolo, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff. Lawrence Cake and Raymond A. Negus, Washington, D. C., were on the brief.

Pauline B. Heller, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. William H. Orrick, Jr., for defendant.


WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff sues the defendant in the first count of its petition for freight charges admittedly due and unpaid. In the second count it sues for damages it suffered as the result of the explosion of tanks of anhydrous ammonia, a part of an ice plant, which it was transporting for defendant from Ogden, Utah, to Seattle, Washington.

On August 21, 1951, defendant delivered to plaintiff, a common carrier, a shipment of Government freight described...

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