Sayre v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

For years Chester C. Sayre, appellant, has had a virtual monopoly in the highly specialized field of transporting or vanning horses for hire for race, hunt, and show purposes in Allegheny County and most of western Pennsylvania. Contending that “. . . in order to stay in business and maintain [his] equipment [he would] have to do about 90 per cent of the business,” he has appealed an order of the Public Utility Commission granting a limited certificate to Edward W. Seifert “To transport, as a Class D carrier, horses between points in that part of the County of Allegheny…