Ex Parte Iratacable

OPINION

By the Court,

Coleman, J.:

The petitioner was arrested on a charge of operating, without a license, as a private motor carrier of property, for profit, for Nevada Packing Company, a corporation, engaged in wholesale distribution of meat on the public highways of this state, and running between the city of Reno, in Washoe County, and Carson City, in Ormsby County, and eleven miles south of the city of Reno; thereupon he sued out a writ of habeas corpus.

The legislature of this state, at its last session, enacted a law regulating the use of the public highways of the state, providing a…