Illinois Commerce Commission Ex Rel. Lumaghi Coal Co. v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.

This cause comes by appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook county reversing an order of the Illinois Commerce Commission in favor of the appellant, requiring a reduction in freight rates to Chicago on coal shipped from the appellant's mines at Collinsville.

The Lumaghi Coal Company, the appellant, is a corporation owning and operating coal mines located at Collinsville, a station on the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company eleven miles east of East St. Louis. In December, 1922, the appellant filed a complaint with the Commerce Commission against the Pennsylvania Railroad…