Edward S. Burton v. Matanuska Valley Lines, Inc., a Corporation in the Territory of Alaska

We have frequently adverted to the weight that courts should accord to findings and decisions made by administrative boards in the exercise of what Mr. Justice Frankfurter is fond of calling “expertise.”1

Once again we are faced with an attempt by a trial court to interfere, this time by injunction, with the activities of a public utility operating under a certificate lawfully granted to it by a regulatory commission.

®In its brief, the appellee ascribes to the appellants a “monstrous contention that an existing public transportation system, franchised and licensed in accordance with law and…