AERO TRANSIT CO. v. GEORGIA COMM'N.

No. 586.

295 U.S. 285 (1935)

AERO MAYFLOWER TRANSIT CO. v. GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 29, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Edgar Watkins, Jr., and Edgar Watkins for appellant.

Mr. B.D. Murphy, Assistant Attorney General of Georgia, with whom Mr. M.J. Yeomans, Attorney General, was on the brief, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE CARDOZO delivered the opinion of the Court.

The validity of a statute of Georgia under the Commerce Clause (Article I, § 8, clause 3) and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States is challenged by the appellant, a private carrier for hire engaged in interstate commerce.

The statute is known as the "Motor-Carrier Act of 1931." Georgia Laws, Ex. Sess. 1931, p. 99. It prescribes...

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