Case ID: us-ct-cl_61/html/1023-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice ButleR", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES
    March 2, 1925.
    [57 C. Cls. 569; 267 U. S. 403]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, the Supreme Court deciding:
    A railroad company which made out and presented freight bills to the Government for net transportation charges after making land-grant deductions, and accepted without protest payment of the amount so claimed; held not entitled to recover upon the ground that the Government should not have been allowed the deductions.
   Mr. Justice ButleR

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court