Combs v. Johnson

CLAY, Commissioner.

This controversy involves the question of whether or not the Department of Motor Transportation properly granted a common carrier motor freight certificate to appellant Combs. On appeal by protesting carriers to the Franklin Circuit Court the order granting the certificate was set aside.

The proposed transportation service involves the carriage of freight between Louisville and points in Eastern Kentucky, the route passing through Lexington. Between Louisville and Lexington the new service will compete on a route served by three of the protestants, and from Lexington to…