Show 9Ctt1iD Claims Against GOT eminent Washington SThe court of claims I rendered a decision < today in the case of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fo Railroad Company against the United States in which the claimants se k to re cot er compensation for ansporUtion services rendered by it to the United States in 1875 nnd 1876 These service at claimants ordinary tariff rates charged the pubic would be worth 170843 The court finds hwever that tho claimant is entitled to rec ver for transportation done for tho United States over its land grant road from March 31st 1575 to Decemcor 1st 1876 only 50 per cent of the ordinary tariff rate charged the public viz the sum of PR5421 whicb les 579743 already paid by government account thereof ves still due 5673 The opinion of the court as to the per contage of its claim which tbc road is entitled to recover is i decisive of twelve or fifteen other pending caws brought by land grant railroads volving between half a million anti a million dollars |