Legal Opinion
Sale v. Railroad Commission
California Supreme Court
Decided July 2, 1940No. S. F. 16306PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
By this proceeding the petitioners, who are engaged in the transportation business as highway carriers, challenge a decision of the respondent commission the effect of which is to permit a rival transportation company to operate a competing truck line.
In 1927, Misener Motor Drayage Company, a California corporation, acquired certain operative rights for the seasonal transportation of farm produce as a highway common carrier. In the following year the corporation was suspended for fail ure to pay its 1927 franchise tax. Although its corporate powers were never revived, the suspended…
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