Mountain Trucking Co. v. Public Service Commission of West Virginia

Haden, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia pursuant to a hearing on an application for a contract carrier permit. By the provisions of the order, B & H Trucking Company was granted a permit to operate ten motor vehicles as a contract carrier in the transportation of road building materials in Kanawha, Boone and Fayette Counties under contract with Central Appalachian Coal Company, a subsidiary of Appalachian Power Company.

The appeal is prosecuted by Mountain Trucking Company, a corporation, who appeared along with S. S. “Joe” Burford…