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INTERSTATE COMM. COMM. v. ILL. CENT. R.R.

No. 233.

215 U.S. 452 (1910)

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 10, 1910.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wade H. Ellis, Assistant to the Attorney General, and

Mr. Luther M. Walter, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. L.A. Shaver and Mr. H.B. Arnold were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Eldon J. Cassoday, and Mr. Rush C. Butler for Receivers of the Illinois Collieries Company submitted a brief by leave of the court.

Mr. W.S. Kenyon and Mr. Garrard B. Winston, with whom Mr. Robert Mather, Mr. F.S. Winston and Mr. J.M. Dickinson were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Whether a duty rested upon the Illinois Central Railroad Company to obey an order made by the Interstate Commerce Commission is the question here to be decided.

On the ground that preferences were created and discriminations engendered by regulations established by the railroad company concerning the daily distribution of coal cars to mines along its line in periods...

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