Fikse & Co. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting contention that a consignee’s acceptance of the shipment by itself creates an express or implied obligation to pay the freight charges
• “[N]o implication of an agreement to pay could arise by acceptance in view of the express provisions obligating [the non-government entity that contracted with the plaintiff] to pay shipping charges”
• “... no implication of an agreement to pay could arise by acceptance in view of the express provisions obligating [the non-government entity that contracted with the plaintiff] to pay shipping charges”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).