Alabama Public Service Commission v. Continental Tennessee Lines

COLEMAN, Justice.

Leonard Basden and wife, as a partnership, applied to the Alabama Public Service Commission for certificate to operate as a common carrier of passengers by motor vehicle over a regular route from Lane Springs to Cherokee and on to and through Tuscumbia and Sheffield to Listerhill in Colbert County.

Lane Springs is in the northwest part of Colbert County about eight miles north of Cherokee. There is no public transportation between Lane Springs and Cherokee. Armour has a plant employing approximately seven hundred people located halfway between Lane Springs and Cherokee.

The…