Alton Railroad v. Illinois Commerce Commission

The Bloomington Association of Commerce, a voluntary association, and Union Gas & Electric Company, filed a complaint before the Illinois Commerce Commission against the New York Central Railroad Company charging in effect that the latter had so changed the extent of its switching district in the city of Bloomington as to deprive certain industries of the benefit of reasonable switching rates, the effect of which was to substitute a line-haul rate, which so operated as to make the charges unlawful, unreasonable and discriminatory. The Alton Railroad Company and Funk Brothers Seed Company…