THE ALTON RAILROAD COMPANY, Claimant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent.
Case summary
The Alton Railroad Company claimed $26.73 for unpaid freight charges on shipments from state penitentiaries to the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School. The court awarded the full amount based on the Director of Public Welfare's admission that the charges should be paid.
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Headnotes
- FREIGHT CHARGES-when award will be made for. Where facts are undisputed that claimant rendered services to the State in carrying freight and that charges for same were the established rate for the kind of merchandise carried and that State received same an award for amount due will be made.
Claimant demands the sum of $26.73 for freight charges on certain shipments of merchandise transported over its lines from the Southern Illinois Penitentiary at Menard, Illinois and from the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, Illinois to the Illinois Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's School at Normal, Illinois. All shipments were carried at the established traffic rate for such merchandise and the freight charges therefor remain wholly unpaid.
It is admitted that the merchandise was received by the consignee, and Mr. A. L. Bowen, Director of the Department of Public Welfare, in his report on the claim, stated that the same should be paid.
Award is therefore entered in favor of the claimant for the amount claimed, to-wit, Twenty-six Dollars and Seventythree Cents ($26.73).