CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 62 C 260.

205 F.Supp. 378 (1962)

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

May 2, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas I. Megan, Donald C. McDevitt, Theodore E. Desch, Martin L. Cassell, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co., plaintiff.

Lee Loevinger, Asst. Atty. Gen., John H. D. Wigger, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., James P. O'Brien, U. S. Atty., John P. Crowley, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for United States.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, Leonard S. Goodman, Atty., Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission, defendant.

Carl McGowan, Edgar Vanneman, Jr., John C. Danielson, Chicago, Ill., for Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co., intervening defendant.

Michael L. Weissman (of Antonow & Fink), Chicago, Ill., Arthur L. Winn, Jr., Samuel H. Moerman, J. Raymond Clark, James M. Henderson (of LaRoe, Winn & Moerman), Washington, D. C., for International Paper Co., intervening defendant.

Mishael O. Gard (of Swain, Johnson & Gard), Peoria, Ill., for Pioneer Industrial Park, Investors Enterprises, Inc., and Peoria Industrial Enterprises, Inc., intervening defendants.

Before KNOCH, Circuit Judge, and HOFFMAN and PARSONS, District Judges.


PARSONS, District Judge.

Pioneer Industrial Park, a 340 acre plot of undeveloped farm land situated northwest of Peoria, Illinois, was purchased by the Peoria Industrial Enterprises, Inc., and dedicated by it in September of 1959 for the purpose of attracting new industry to the vicinity of Peoria. Thus far, three businesses have built plants within the Park. In the southeast portion of the Park is the new plant of the C. A. Reed Company. Southwest of the center of...

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