Abbott v. Public Utilities Commission

This is an appeal from an order of the Public Utilities Commission denying and dismissing the appellant’s application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate jitneys between Providence and Woonsocket.

The appellant, desiring authority to establish a line of so-called "motor busses” between said cities made application to the Commission for a certificate as prescribed in Sec. 3, Chapter 254, Gen. Laws 1923. It is provided in said chapter that the term "jitney” shall include any "motor bus” operated as is set forth in Section 1 of said chapter. Section 3 in part provides…