State ex rel. Utilities Commission v. Nello L. Teer Co.

This proceeding was instituted before the Utilities Commission by the filing of a complaint by Teer. Consequently, the statute imposes upon Teer the burden of proving the facts essential *373to its right to relief from the rate relationship of which it complains. G.S. 62-75. Since the cost data and other circumstances concerning justification for the differential in rates of which Teer complains are more readily available to the participating railroads than they are to a complaining shipper, it may well be thought that in such proceedings as these, just as in proceedings instituted by the'…