Monroe v. Railroad Commission
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint. Prior to the commencement of this action the plaintiffs had been operating motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for hire in the city of Racine,' Wisconsin, under the provisions of ch. 546, Laws 1915, being secs. 1797 — 62 et seq., Stats.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Dane county: E. Ray Stevens, Circuit Judge. The appeal is from an order sustaining a demurrer to the complaint. Prior to the commencement of this action the plaintiffs had been operating motor vehicles for the carriage of passengers for hire in the city of Racine,' Wisconsin, under the provisions of ch. 546, Laws 1915, being secs. 1797 — 62 et seq., Stats. Having given the required bond and made due application for and obtained the certificate provided for in said láw from the defendant, plaintiffs respectively paid the license fee required under…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The question involved in this appeal is whether there is a general supervisory power of control by the Railroad Commission after it has once acted, in issuing the required certificate, over the motor vehicles operating in passenger transportation, commonly known as jitneys.
The text or substance of ch. 546, Laws 1915, creating secs. 1797 — 62 to 1797 — 68 of the Statutes, so far as deemed necessary for this case, is as follows:
Sec. 1797 — 62, Stats., provides that the operator of any such motor vehicle “is hereby declared to be a commbn carrier, and is hereby required to furnish reasonable and…
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