SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. KING


89 So.2d 246 (1956)

SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, a corporation, and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, a corporation, Petitioners, v. Wilbur C. KING, Jerry W. Carter and Alan S. Boyd, as members of and constituting the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission; and Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied September 11, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Fred McMullen of Ausley & Ausley, Tallahassee, for Seaboard Air Line R. Co.

LeRoy Allen and Ralph C. Dell, Tampa for Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

Lewis W. Petteway and Guyte P. McCord, Jr., Tallahassee, for Florida Railroad & Public Utilities Comm.

L.H. Hill, Jr., and Hill, Hill & Dickenson, Tampa, for Rockana Carriers, Inc.

J.B. Rodgers, Jr., of Rodgers & Kirkland, Orlando, for L.H. Sims.


THOMAS, Justice.

The petitioners seek a review of an order of the respondents cancelling "Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity" No. 460, held by L.H. Sims, and ordering it reissued to Rockana Carriers, Inc. By the order the commission authorized the carriage by the transferee of fertilizer and fertilizer materials anywhere in Florida.

As we shall see when we reach its origin and history, the certificate, numbered 460, now involved had been issued...

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