Case ID: us-ct-cl_57/html/0599-02.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice BeaNdeis", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [55 C. Cls. 45; 258 U. S. 374.]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On plaintiff’s appeal the judgment was modified and affirmed and the case remanded, the Supreme Court deciding:
    The obligation of a land-grant-aided railroad to transport at reduced rates “troops” of the United States applies, to the transportation of members of the Coast Guard when serving as. part of the Navy but not when serving under the Treasury.
   Mr. Justice BeaNdeis

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court April 10, 1922.