Frost & Frost Trucking Co. v. Railroad Comm'n of Cal.

This case involves the constitutional validity of the, Auto Stage'and Truck Transportation Act of California, c. 213, Statutes' of California, .1917, p. 330, as construed and applied to plaintiffs in error by the state supreme court. The specific challenge is that, as so construed and applied, it. takes their property for public use without just compensation, deprives them of their property .without due process of law, and denies them the equal protection of the laws, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution. The act provides for the supervision and regulation Of…