Legal Opinion

Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. State Public Utilities Commission

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 22, 1915PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sarigamon county; the Hon. James A. Creighton, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Cartwright

The appellant, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, charges the Poehlmann Bros. Company, a corporation owning and operating two greenhouses at Morton Grove, a village about three miles from the corporate limits of Chicago, forty cents a ton on car-load shipments of coal and forty cents a ton on car-load shipments of manure from Galewood to Morton Grove, a distance of eleven and a half miles. The Poehlmann Bros. Company filed a complaint with the Railroad and Warehouse Commission, of which the appellee, the State Public Utilities Commission, is the successor, alleging that it…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Houston, East & West Texas Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  2. Simpson v. ShepardSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
  3. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
  4. Interstate Commerce Commission v. Illinois Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  5. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Larabee Flour Mills Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909

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3Cited by21 opinions

  1. State Public Utilities Commission ex rel. City of Springfield v. Springfield Gas & Electric Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1919
  2. Wabash, Chester & Western Railroad v. Commerce Commission ex rel. Jefferson Southwestern RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1923
  3. State Public Utilities Commission ex rel. Mitchell v. Chicago & West Towns Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1916
  4. Muskogee Gas & Electric Co. v. StateSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1920
  5. Illinois Commerce Commission Ex Rel. Lumaghi Coal Co. v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1928

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