Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1910 — Fifty Suits Filed Against Monon in Montgomery County. [ARTICLE]

Fifty Suits Filed Against Monon in Montgomery County.

Fifty suits charging the Monon railroad with having violated the transportation rate schedule as fixed by the Railroad Commission of Indiana for hauling coal from New Albany to other Indiana towns, were filed Wednesday in the Montgomery circuit court at the direction of the commission. The suits were brought In the name of the Railroad Commission by C. V. McAdams, of Indianapolis, formerly a member of the Railroad Commission, and who was connected with the case when the order was first made. Each suit involves the collection of a penalty of SI,OOO and docket fees amounting to SSO and costs of the action. The Railroad Commission of Indiana asserts that for many years prior to Dec 17, 1908, the Monon Railroad company had on file with the commission, a tariff naming the rates for transportation on coal of car load lots On that date Edward T. Slider, a New Albany coal dealer, filed a petition charging that the rates were excessive, unreasonable and discriminative, and asked that the commission establish just, reasonable and rates In lieu thereof to be observed in the future. The commission, on Investigation, found the railroad guilty as charged by Mr. Sliderand and ordered the company to cease charging such rates, and by its final order the commission determined reasonable and indiscriminative rates. The case, on petition of the railroad company, was reheard, bu. the original order, with a few minor changes, was held valid. The order became effective Sept. 10, 1909, but it is charged in the suits filed Wednesday that the Monon did not comply with the final order until May 15th last. Until May 15th the old rates for transportation were charged. The fifty cases filed are those in which Edward T. Slider, of Net* Albany, Ind., it is alleged, was charged excessive rates. The cases are the same, excepting that the coal was shipped to different firms in several Indiana towns and cities from New Albany. While on her wedding trip, Mrs. Lester Porter Warford, *Me of the Rev. Mr. Warford, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Cgldo, N. D., died suddenly Wednesday at Stateland, N. Y.. They were married at the home of the bride’s parents north of Warsaw June 21. The body will be brought to Warsaw for Interment. A “Classified Adv.” will rent it