Interstate Commerce Commission v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Certain proceedings were had before the Interstate Com-, merce Commission.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. Certain proceedings were had before the Interstate Com-, merce Commission. They were commenced by the filing of a petition by the Chicago Live Stock Exchange in April, 1902, • charging the defendants, who are now the appellees, with the violation of §§ 1 and 3 of the Interstate Commerce Act of February 4, 1887. The specific offense stated was that the defendants were charging higher, rates of freight upon live stock shipped from Missouri River points, and other points similarly situated, to Chicago, than…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brewer,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. .
It is unnecessary to define the full scope and meaning of the prohibition found in § 3 of the Interstate Commerce Act — or even to determine whether the language is sufficiently definite to make the duties cast on the Interstate Commerce Commission ministerial, and therefore such as may legally be imposed upon a ministerial body, or legislative, and therefore, under the Federal Constitution, a matter for Congressional action— for within any.fair, construction of the terms “undue or unreasonable ” the…
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