Pioneer Creamery Co. v. American Railway Express Co.

This is a statutory appeal under the Public Utilities act from an order of the Illinois Commerce Commission denying reparation to the complainant, the Pioneer Creamery Company, now the Beatrice Creamery Company. The complaint before the commission alleged that the regular second-class express rates applied to the transportation of cream by the defendant express company from certain points in the State to Galesburg when routed over the lines of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company (herein called the Burlington) from January 26, 1923, to July 28, 1928, were excessive, unjust and…