Case ID: us-ct-cl_54/html/0194-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice McReynolds", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE UNITED STATES v. ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY.
    [52 C. Cls., 338; 249 U. S., 451.]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff company by the court below. On appeal the judgment was reversed, and the cause remanded with direction to dismiss the petition. The Supreme Court decided:
    The act of March 4, 1913, chapter 143, 37 Statutes, 791, 797, authorizing the Postmaster General to add, not exceeding 5 per cent per annum to the compensation of railroads, under certain pending contracts for transportation of mail, left the increases, within that limit, to his discretion; the plain import of the words used must control.
   Mr. Justice McReynolds

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court April 14, 1919.