Litchfield & Madison Railway Co. v. Alton & Southern Railroad

Appellant is a belt line railroad serving the industries and the public of East St. Louis, Granite City and neighboring cities. Appellee is a railroad forty-three miles in length carrying freight and passengers between its termini, Litchfield and Madison, and intervening points, Granite City being one of the cities through which it operates. The St. Louis Coke and Chemical Company has located an extensive manufacturing plant at Granite City, and when the plant is operated at full capacity its in-bound and out-bound traffic amounts to about 200 car-loads a day. The tracks of appellant and…