WABASH, ST. LOUIS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY V. ILLINOIS
118 U.S. 557 (1886)
NATURE OF THE CASE: Wabash (D) appealed an affirmation of a judgment rendered against D
in Illinois' (P) suit charging that D had, in violation of a state statute, been guilty of
an unjust discrimination in its rates or charges of toll and compensation for the
transportation of freight.
FACTS: P claimed D to be guilty of an unjust discrimination in its rates or charges of
toll and compensation for the transportation of freight. D charged one shipper, for
transporting twenty-six thousand pounds of goods and chattels from Peoria, in the State of
Illinois, to New York city, the sum of thirty-nine dollars or fifteen cents per hundred
pounds, and that on the same day they agreed to carry and transport for another shipper
another car-load of goods from Gilman, in the State of Illinois, to said city of New York,
for which they charged the sum of sixty-five dollars, being at the rate of twenty-five cents
per hundred pounds. The car-load transported for the first shipper was carried eighty-six
miles farther in the State of Illinois than the other car-load of the same weight. This
freight being of the same class in both instances, and carried over the same road, except as
to the difference in the distance, it is obvious that a discrimination against the second
shipper was made in the charges against them as compared with those against the first
shipper. D was eventually found guilty and the Supreme Court of Illinois affirmed holding
that P may regulate subjects over which Congress has not exercised its power.
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