Illinois Central Railroad v. State Public Utilities Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. These cross appeals present a controversy over the validity, scope and effect of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission dealing with discrimination, found to result from a disparity in interstate and intrastate-passenger rates.
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APPEALS PROM THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP ILLINOIS. These cross appeals present a controversy over the validity, scope and effect of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission dealing with discrimination, found to result from a disparity in interstate and intrastate-passenger rates. The facts and proceedings to be considered are these: The Mississippi River forms the boundary between the States of Missouri and Iowa on the west and the State of Illinois on the east. East' St. Louis, in southwestern Illinois, is directly across the river from St.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
The questions to which attention is first invited relate to the power of the District Court in the Northern District of Illinois to entertain the suits and the cross bills, in view of the jurisdictional provision in the Act of October 22, 1913, c. 32, 38 Stat. 219, that a suit “to enforce, suspend, or set aside, in whole or in part,” an order of the Commission relating to transportation and made upon petition may be brought only in the district “wherein is the residence of the party or any of the parties upon whose petition the order was made.”
It was objected in the District Court that the…
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