Northville Coach Line, Inc. v. City of Detroit

Looking as the various opinions do at too many posed questions, I suggest respectfully that the Court is not concentrating enough attention upon that critically controlling .provision which, since 1933, has denied to the defendant city the exemptive right claimed by its pleaded affirmative defense No. 1, headed “Exemption from regulatory provisions of motor carrier act.” That provision entered the legal picture as section 2, subd (c) of article 5 of PA 1933, No 254. It is cited officially now as CLS 1961, § 479.2, subd (c) (Stat Ann 1965 Cum Supp § 22.567, subd [c]). The controlling question…