Beaver Valley Service Co. v. Public Service Commission

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

Appellant operates a common carrier motor freight service between Pittsburgh and Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. It applied to the Public Service Commission for a certificate of public convenience authorizing an extension of this service from Beaver, by way of Van-port, Industry and Midland, to Smith’s Ferry, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, a distance of a little over seven miles. Protests were filed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company, and J. P. Graham, a certificated truckman.

The commission, after an extended hearing, refused…