Fallon v. Illinois Commerce Commission

Per Curiam :

This is a consolidated case from Cook County, involving two applications by the Chicago Junction Railroad Company to the Commerce Commission of Illinois. A petition in No. 30437 was filed by the railroad company with the commission in 1943, seeking authority and permission to operate a common carrier system over its own streetcar lines, then operated under order of the bankruptcy court by the Chicago Rapid Transit Company, a previous long-term lease by the latter having been terminated by order of court. A short time later the railroad company filed another petition with the…