SALT LAKE TRANSFER CO. v. BARTON TRUCK LINE, INC.

No. 8901.

8 Utah 2d 401 (1959)

335 P.2d 829

SALT LAKE TRANSFER COMPANY, AND ASHWORTH TRANSFER, INC., PLAINTIFFS, v. BARTON TRUCK LINE, INC.; SALT LAKE-KANAB FREIGHT LINES, INC.; MILNE TRUCK LINES, INC.; MAGNA-GARFIELD TRUCK LINE AND CARBON MOTORWAY, INC., AND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF UTAH, DEFENDANTS.

Supreme Court of Utah.

February 27, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pugsley, Hayes, Rampton & Watkiss, Salt Lake City, for plaintiffs.

E.R. Callister, Jr., Atty. Gen., Raymond W. Gee, Gary L. Theurer, Asst. Attys. Gen., J. Reed Tuft, Lybbert & Marshall, Skeen, Worsley, Snow & Christensen, Salt Lake City, for defendants.


CROCKETT, Chief Justice.

Plaintiffs challenge the construction the Public Service Commission places upon their grants of authority (Certificates of Convenience and Necessity) to operate as common motor carriers. The Commission sustained the complaint of Barton Truck Line charging plaintiffs with improperly instituting carrier service for general commodities between points already served by Barton in Salt Lake and Tooele Counties.

Plaintiffs claim their authority...

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