Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. v. People

This was an action of debt, brought to recover penalties under the act to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination in the rates charged for the transportation of passengers and freight on railroads in this State, etc., approved May 2,1873. The suit was commenced May 21. 1874. The declaration contained twenty counts, the first nineteen of which were for extortion, and.the twentieth for unjust discrimination.

The defendant pleaded three special pleas, to which a demurrer was sustained, and the defendant electing to abide by the pleas, the court, a jury being waived, heard the evidence, and…