Wilcox v. Illinois Commerce Commission

This is an appeal by plaintiffs from an order of the circuit court of Kankakee County, affirming an order of the Illinois Commerce Commission, entered pursuant to the “Gas Storage Act” of 1951. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1959, chap. 104, par. 1 et seq.) Under that act a corporation engaged in the distribution, transportation or storage of natural gas which is intended in whole or in part, for ultimate distribution to the public in Illinois, may have the right of eminent domain, provided that such corporation “is regulated or subject to regulation under either the laws of the State of Illinois or the…