Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1907 — The Monon Has Test Case. [ARTICLE]

The Monon Has Test Case.

The right of a railroad company under the new rate law to pay transportation for advertising is to be brought to a test in the United States court in Chicago. Our own Monon railroad company which was the first railroad in the United States to violata the rule of the Interstate Commerce Commission against issuing railroad tickets for advertising is made defendant in the suit now pending, District Attorney Edward W. Simshaving filed in that court a suit restrain the railroad company from carrying out the provisions of a contract it has made with the Frank A. Munsey Publishing Company *of New York. The affidavit charges that the contract entered into provides that in exchange for a page of advertising in the magazine SSOO worth of transportation will be given, and that tickets worth $145 were issued by April 3rd last while only $125 worth of advertising had been done up to that time. The case will attract wide spread attention.