Interstate Commerce Commission v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

This record requires us to determine whether the court below rightly; refused to enforce an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, by which it was found that an alleged terminal charge, made by the defendants in error, for the delivery of live stock to the stock yards in Chicago, ivas unjust and un*321reasonable, and hence violative of the act to regulate commerce. To avoid the confusion which must be engendered by considering a number of irrelevant issues and to reach.the single question to which the controversy is reducible, it is essential to state the facts, which are uncontroverted,…