People ex rel. Board of Administration v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co.

This is an appeal by the Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company from an order of the circuit court of Sangamon county affirming an order of the State Public Utilities Commission which directed the railway company to cease all discrimination relative to the shipment of coal or other commodities over a certain railroad track from its main line to the Peoria State Hospital at South Bartonville.

The appellant is a railroad corporation and has for many years operated a railway between the cities of Peoria and Pekin. The firm of Sholl Bros, was the owner of coal lands near the line of the road and…