North Alabama Motor Express, Inc. v. Rookis

BOULDIN, Justice.

The appeal is from a decree of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, sitting in equity, affirming an order of the Alabama Public Service Commission granting a certificate of “convenience and necessity” to appellees to engage in the business of a “common carrier” of specified classes of freight between points within the State of Alabama defined in Appendix A to the order of the Commission, which appears in the report of the case.

The application for a franchise, styled a certificate of “convenience and necessity,” was made under Section Nine of the “Alabama Motor Carrier Act…