Jones v. Alton & S. R.

LINDLEY, District Judge.

This action was brought by plaintiffs under section 16, par. 2, of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 USC A § 16 (2), to recover alleged unreasonable excesses of freight rates charged by defendants for the transportation of coal from certain districts in Illinois to Marshall, Mexico, and Vandalia, Mo., in violation of section 1 of the aet (49 USC A § 1). The charges were made upon rates found by the Commission to be unreasonable in report No. 23424, Milton & Son et al. v. Alton & Southern Ry. Co. et al., 179 I. C. C. 200, decided November 23,1931, which covered in all…