Peoples Fruit & Vegetable Shippers Ass'n v. Commerce Commission Ex Rel. Central Railroad

On December 3, 1928, the Peoples Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association, complainant and appellee, filed a complaint with the Illinois Commerce Commission against the Illinois Central Railroad Company, defendant and appellant. Both parties are Illinois corporations and the questions raised by the complaint involve purely intrastate matters, inasmuch as the subject matter of the complaint concerns shipments originating on the line of the appellant at Cob-den, Illinois, and ending in Chicago. After hearings were held before the commission an order was made, negative in character and in favor…