Show SEA POSTAGE A Judgment in Favor or the Pacific Mall Meamghip Company WASHINGTON Nov 2STha court of claims today gave a decision favorable to the Pacific Mail Steamship company on a snit against tho United States to recover 178583 additional compensation for conveyance con-veyance from Oct 9 1S75 to Sept 261SS5 of malls from San Francisco to Now Zealand Zea-land New South Wales Queensland and Victoria and other Australian countries upon the ground that the company had not been paid full sea postage on letters and bad been paid nothing on other articles contained in tho mails The findings of the court which was prepared and read by Judge John Davis settled wo points in controversy which have 11 most important Gearing in the final settlement tho case One was a definition of sea postage as being the difference between total postage and UnIted States inland potaje plus inland in-land polago of the foreign receiving country coun-try when charged and plus the intermediate intermedi-ate transit charges when made The other was that tho conclusion that the statute of limitations in this lease began to run at the end of each trip and plaintiff can recover only for a period beginning six years prior to the presentation of his claim J to the poatodco department Tho case was remanded to the trial calendar for computation compu-tation of amounts due in accordance with the courts opinion and for such further proceedings as may be necessary to that ena |