Noble v. United States

BELL, District Judge.

This is an action by John F. Noble, transacting business as the Noble Transit Company, to review and to annul certain restrictive provisions of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission issued May 13, 1941, granting to the plaintiff a permit to operate as a contract carrier under the so-called “grandfather” clause of Section 209(a) of the Motor Carrier Act of 1935, as amended, 49 U.S.C.A. § 309(a). The cause was presented to a statutory court convened in accordance with the provisions of 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 41, 43 and- 48. The plaintiff, defendants and intervenors were…