Commonwealth, Department of Transportation v. Cox

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

This is an appeal by the Department of Transportation (DOT) from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford County sustaining an appeal from a decision of the Bureau of Traffic Safety (Bureau) suspending the certificate of appointment of Mr. Cox’s service station as an official inspection station.

From a stipulation of facts which constituted the evidentiary record before the court of common pleas, we learn that one Dan Covell occasionally contracted to do body work in Cox’s service station in return for which the two of them would split the profits on Covell’s…