Franchise Motor Freight Assn. v. Seavey

This is an application for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent Commission to assume and exercise jurisdiction over certain persons engaged in the business of transportation of property as common carriers for compensation over the public highways in this state between fixed termini or over regular routes, and to require such persons to cease operating until they shall have applied for and obtained from the respondent Commission certificates of public convenience and necessity therefor. The truck operators referred to are engaged exclusively in the movement of products or implements of…