Interstate Commerce Commission v. Chicago, B. & Q. R.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois.
1DissentGrosscup, Circuit Judge
Prior to 1865 the railways entering Chicago had four separate places for the delivery of live stock, each equipped with the necessary facilities. Considering, for obvious reasons, a union of these facilities desirable, the Union Stock Yards were established by the railways, though as a separate corporation, with such lines of intervening railway as put the yards in connection with all the roads centering in Chicago. It is substantially undisputed that, from the consolidation of these delivery stations until 1894, the chutes, pens, and other equipment at the new stock yards, were the delivery…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Covington Stock-Yards Co. v. KeithSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Walker v. KeenanCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1896
- Covington Stock-Yards Co. v. KeithSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Union Trust Co. of New York v. Atchison, T. & S. F. R.U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1894