State v. Bee Hive Auto Service Co.

Two appeals are here involved, consolidated for the purposes of the hearing. As they present hut a single question, we may treat them as one.

The corporation defendant and the individual defendant were charged by information with having violated the statute commonly known as the jitney bus act. Laws of 1915, p. 227; Rem. Comp. Stat., §§ 6382, 6384, 6385. This statute makes it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, other than a steam, street or interurban railway company, to engage in or carry on the business of carrying or transporting passengers for hire in any motor propelled vehicles…