State Ex Rel. Smithco Transport Co. v. Public Service Commission

WESTHUES, Judge.

The State Public Service Commission denied Smithco Transport Company a certificate of convenience and necessity for an intrastate freight carrier between various points in Missouri. The primary purpose for which a permit was sought was the transportation of milk and other dairy products from the plant of Sanitary Milk Producers, a farmers’ co-operative, at Lebanon, Missouri, to St. Louis, Missouri. The case was heal'd by two members of the Commission. One of these members dissented from the order of the Commission denying a certificate or permit. The Circuit Court of Cole…