Williams v. Public Service Commission

HENRIOD, Justice:

Review by certiorari of an order denying Williams’ application for certificate of convenience and necessity to operate a passenger service by boat on the Colorado and Green Rivers. Albeit this was the technical and highly specific order, one cannot read this record without concluding that the novel and unorthodox procedure indulged here, primarily was not designed to be restricted to an order concerning a certificate. Obviously, it was designed to engender a sort of test case to determine the latitude and longitude of the Commission’s authority over the carrying by boat of…