Case ID: us-ct-cl_58/html/0706-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Saneord", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [56 C. Cls. 377; 261 U.S. 385.]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    To permit a recovery under the Dent Act, c. 94, 40 Stat. 1272, there must have been an agreement, express or implied.
    Where, at the instance of Army officers, a railroad company hastened construction of a branch line to reach an ordnance depot, and in so doing, on its own determination, without notice to the Government or mention of compensation, went to additional expenses, held that no agreement on the part of the Government to repay them could be implied.
   Mr. Justice Saneord

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court March 19, 1923.