Alton & Southern Railroad v. Illinois Commerce Commission

In March, 1923, the Perry Coal Company and seventeen other companies, operating approximately twenty-seven mines in St. Clair and Madison counties within a radius of 20 miles of East St. Louis, filed complaints against the appellant carriers. The mines in question are within what is known as the Belleville district, or Group 2. They are also within what is known as the “inner circle” of that group. The average distance of these mines from East St. Louis is 13.43 miles, the distance varying from 6.5 miles to approximately 20 miles. (Distant mines in Group 2 are approximately 70 miles from East…