Interstate Commerce Commission v. Inland Waterways Corp.

By schedules filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission to become effective October 15, 1939, the appellant eastern railroads1 sought to deny grain arriving at Chicago by barge over the Illinois Waterways the privilege of moving out of Chicago by rail on “proportional” rates applicable to competing grain arriving at Chicago by lake steamer or rail. The only other rates on which the ex-barge grain could move eastward by rail from Chicago were “local” rates, which were in all cases higher than the existing “proportional” rates. The proposed schedules were protested by barge lines and others…