Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co. v. Commerce Commission Ex Rel. Cairo Ass'n of Commerce

The Cairo Chamber of Commerce and certain coal dealers in Cairo filed a complaint with the Illinois Commerce Commission against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Missouri Pacific, the Mobile and Ohio, the Illinois Central and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Companies, in which they alleged that the rate of $1.13 per ton on coal from certain mines in southern Illinois to Cairo, Illinois, and to certain intermediate points, is unjust, unreasonable, in violation of sections 32 and 38 of the Commerce act, and that the rate should be reduced to 70 cents per ton.…