RG 30 - Bureau of Public Roads - Defense Access Highway Projects

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Defense Access Highway Project Files, ca. 1940-1952

National Archives Identifier 4504923

National Archives Identifier 6095198

National Archives Identifier 6102322

National Archives Identifier 6129635

This series contains correspondence of Regional Counsel Victor Lamar Smith, relative to the railroad cases involving the United States Railroad Administration. It includes correspondence concerning claims of the United States against individual railroad companies and vice versa. Much of the correspondence includes loss and damage claims submitted by railroads on a monthly basis. The correspondence also includes advice to the individual railroad companies about legal settlements in cases in which the United States Railroad Administration was a co-defendant in its capacity as overseer of the railroads. Included in these cases are early class action suits regarding routes and fairs.