Lowe v. Public Service Commission

WADE, Justice.

Petitioners, George A. Lowe, Strevell-Paterson Hardware Company and Salt Lake Hardware Company, each a separate corporation engaged in the hardware business, ask for a Writ of Prohibition against the Public Service Commission of Utah seeking to prohibit it from assuming jurisdiction over petitioners in their use of the public highways for the purpose of transporting the merchandise of each of the petitioners on the ground that they are neither contract nor common carriers by motor vehicle, but that each one of them is using its own vehicle and employees to haul its own goods.…