Case ID: us-ct-cl_61/html/1029-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES
    May 11, 1925.
    [59 C. Cls. 67; 268 U. S. 271]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was reversed, the Supreme Court deciding:
    1. Where transportation bills at land-grant rates bore endorsements sufficiently notifying government officers that payment at those rates to the railroad was not accepted in final settlement, the railroad was not barred by acquiescence from further claiming the difference between the amounts received and the lawful tariff fares. See Southern Pacific Go. v. United States, 268 U. S. 263.
    2. Claims accruing more than six years before beginning the action in the Court of Claims are barred by Jud. Code section 156.
    3. The provision of Kov. Stats., section 3477, that all transfers and assignments of any claim against the United States shall be absolutely null and void unless made after the allowance of such claims and the ascertainment of the amount due, does not apply to a transfer of claims through a judicial sale under an order of court. St. Paul Railroad v. United States, 112 U. S. 733, distinguished.
   Mr. Justice SaNeoRd

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court