State Ex Rel. Petroleum Transportation Co. v. Public Service Commission

This case involves the right of the department of transportation of the state of Washington, now known as the public service commission, to grant Pacific Inland Transport, Ltd., a corporation, a common carrier permit to conduct intrastate service as a carrier of petroleum from Pasco, Attalia, and/or Spokane to points and places in this state east of the Columbia river. The department, August 10, 1948, granted the permit over the objections of other carriers. The interested carriers, by writ of review in the superior court of Thurston county, secured a reversal of the departmental order. The…