UNITED STATES v. KAN. PAC. RAILWAY CO.


99 U.S. 455 (____)

UNITED STATES v. KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Attorney-General and Mr. Joseph K. McCammon for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. John P. Usher and Mr. S.W. Sanderson, contra.


MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This case was a suit brought in the court below by the United States against the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, to recover five per cent of the net earnings of the road belonging to that company from the time of the completion thereof, alleged to be the second day of November, 1869, to the thirty-first day of October, 1874; the said five per cent being claimed under the last clause of sect. 6 of the Pacific...

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