Stickney v. Interstate Commerce Commission

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

This is a bill in equity, brought by the railroad companies, which are complainants, against the Interstate Commerce Commission, to enjoin the enforcement of an order made by the latter requiring them to desist from charging $2 per car for transporting live stock brought from outside the state of Illinois, from the ends of their roads in Chicago to the Union Stockyards, and not to exact for that service hereafter a greater sum than $1 per car. The present submission is on a motion for a temporary injunction based on the bill, answer filed thereto, and exhibits filed with…