Case ID: us-ct-cl_63/html/0677-02.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice SutherlaNd", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES
    [59 C. Cls. 886; 273 U. S. 321]
    Judgment -was rendered in favor of the United States, in part, in the court below. On appeal the judgment was
    affirmed,
    the Supreme Court deciding:
    1. A land-grant-aided railroad under a duty to carry government troops at not to exceed 50 per cent of the compensation charged private parties for like transportation must allow the Government the benefit of this reduction from reduced party rates which are offered the public.
    2. Where the railroad has accepted the usual transportation request in issuing tickets for Government transportation, it can not avoid the land-grant reduction from a reduced rate offered the public upon the ground that by the tariff the rate was allowable only for cash paid in advance.
   Mr. Justice SutherlaNd

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court February 21, 1927.