Montana Citizens Freight Rate Ass'n v. Board of Railroad Com'rs

MR. JUSTICE ANGSTMAN:

This appeal is by defendants and intervenors from a judgment holding an order of defendant board increasing intrastate freight rates to be invalid and void.

The interstate commerce commission in Ex Parte 175, reported in 284 I. C. C. R. 589, increased the rates and charges of the rail carriers operating in Montana by nine percent by granting a fifteen percent increase in lieu of a six percent increase previously granted subject to certain exceptions. The findings of the commission, among others, were that the “rates and charges increased as herein authorized are not…