Matthews v. State Ex Rel. St. Andrews Bay Transportation Co.

Section 3-of Chapter 14764, Acts of 1931, provides1 that: “When any application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity has been heard by the Railroad Commission and denied, the Commission shall not entertain any further application covering the identical or similar routes, schedules and/or service until the expiration of six months from the date of such denial.”

Relying upon the above section of the statutes the defendant in error, St. Andrews Bay Transportation Company, obtained from the Circuit Court of 'Leon County a peremptory writ of prohibition against the Florida Railroad…