Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co v. Commerce Commission Ex Rel. Hoopeston Grain & Coal Co.

The Hoopeston Grain and Coal Company and other retail dealers in coal at Hoopeston, Illinois, filed complaints before the Illinois Commerce Commission praying reductions in coal rates charged by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Company and other carriers, defendants, and also praying reparation for alleged overcharges already collected. The substance of the complaints was that the rates maintained by the defendants were excessive and unreasonable and unjustly discriminatory against complainants and their traffic as compared with allegedly preferential rates applied to the…