Case ID: us-ct-cl_45/html/0611-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice McKenna", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE CHICAGO, ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND OMAHA RAILWAY COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [Not reported in C. CIS. R.;
    217 U. S. R., 180.]
    
      On the claimant's appeal.
    
    The claimant, a land-grant road, seeks to recover $40,000 under a contract for carrying the mails. The Court of Claims reduces the amount to $3,389.33 on the authority of Astoria <& Columbia River Railway Company v. The United States (41 C. Cls. B., 284) holding that the power reserved to Congress in the land-grant Act was over the property and not alone over the company which owned it, and that it attaches to all the uses of the property.
   The decision of the court below is affirmed on the same ground.

Mr. Justice McKenna

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court April 4, 1910.