Mandel Bros. Inc. v. Chicago Tunnel Terminal Co.

This case concerns the right of a shipper to recover reparations for allegedly excessive freight rates. It is here on appeal from an order of the circuit court of Cook County which affirmed in part and reversed in part an order of the Illinois Commerce Commission which had denied the claim for reparations.

On September 25, 1946, Chicago Tunnel Terminal Company, a public utility which operates an underground railway serving the Chicago Loop area, filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission a schedule of increased rates, to become effective October 28, 1946. By this schedule, the carload rate…