Case ID: us-ct-cl_62/html/0748-04.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Brandeis", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES v. ST. LOUIS, SAN FRANCISCO & TEXAS RY. CO. UNITED STATES v. WABASH RY. CO.
    [59 C. Cls. 975, 322; 270 U. S. 1]
    Judgments were rendered against the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgments were affirmed, the Supreme Court deciding :
    1. Transportation act, 1920, amending paragraph 3, section 16, of the interstate commerce act, provides: “All actions at law by carriers subject to this act for recovery of their charges, or any part thereof, shall be begun within three years from the time the cause of action accrues and not after.” Meld not applicable retroactively to causes of action existing at the date of the transportation act.
    2. The act of June 7, 1924, which further amended paragraph 3, section 16, of the interstate commerce act, among other things by adding that its provisions “ shall extend to and embrace cases in which the cause of action has heretofore accrued as well as cases in which the cause of action may hereafter accrue,” was not intended to defeat claims on which suits duly brought were then pending, or in which judgment had already been entered.
   Mr. Justice Brandeis

delivered tbe opinion of the Supreme Court January 18, 1926.