Vautier v. State

The issue in this case is whether the Public Utilities Commission’s denial of Pelham Transport’s application for a certificate to operate as an irregular route common carrier of passengers in charter-type service from seventeen southern New Hampshire cities and towns was clearly unreasonable or against the law. RSA 541:13. The plaintiff’s appeal from the decision of the Public Utilities Commission was brought under RSA 541:6.

Pelham Transport presently has interstate authority for regular routes between Pelham, New Hampshire, and Lowell, Massachusetts, and for some incidental charter service…