Great Northern Railway Co. v. Hatch

The Great Northern Railway Company brought suit in Lewis and Clark county to enjoin the defendants William Hatch, C. E. Brown, Ward Thompson, doing business as Ward Thompson Paper Company, and Crawley Motor Supply, a corporation, from carrying on a motor transportation business between Helena, in Lewis and' Clark county, and Butte, in Silver Bow county, without first obtaining from the Public Service Commission a certificate of public convenience and necessity. The complaint alleges, in effect, that under the guise of a “Merchants’ Mutual Motor Service,” the defendants were attempting to…