HESSEY v. CAPITAL TRANSIT CO.

[No. 163, October Term, 1948.]

193 Md. 265 (1949)

66 A.2d 787

HESSEY ET AL. v. CAPITAL TRANSIT CO.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 8, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Harris, General Counsel to the Public Service Commission, and Philip H. Dorsey, Jr., People's Counsel, for appellant.

Clarence W. Miles and Harrison L. Winter, with whom were F.G. Awalt and Daryal A. Myse on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, GRASON, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.


DELAPLAINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Capital Transit Company operates a passenger transportation system by electric railway cars and motor buses in the District of Columbia and also in Prince George's and Montgomery Counties in Maryland. In November, 1947, the company filed applications with the Public Service Commission of Maryland for permission (1) to charge a fare of five cents for each zone radiating a distance of about one mile and a half from...

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