Knox Motor Service, Inc. v. Illinois Commerce Commission

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE REARDON

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, Sangamon County, which held that findings made by the Illinois Commerce Commission (Commission) pursuant to section 18— 309 of the Illinois motor carrier of property law (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 95%, par. 18 — 309) were improper and against the manifest weight of the evidence.

The record reveals that on September 12, 1975, the plaintiffs, Rapid Truck Leasing, Incorporated (Rapid), and Goodwine Trucking, Incorporated (Goodwine), petitioned the…