INTERSTATE COMM. COMM. v. CHICAGO & c. R.R.

No. 232.

215 U.S. 479 (1910)

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. CHICAGO & ALTON 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. 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.

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

By leave of the court, Mr. Francis I. Gowen and Messrs. Wayne MacVeagh, McKenney and Flannery filed a brief on behalf of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is controlled by the opinion just announced in the case of Interstate Commerce Commission v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, ante, p. 452. The complaints made to the commission were alike in both cases, and they were heard before that body at the same time, and one report was made in both cases. The order, in both cases, was the same. Like bills...

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