Rapid Railway Co. v. Michigan Public Utilities Commission

On application therefor, this court allowed a writ of certiorari to review an order of the defendant granting a permit to the Wolverine Transit Company “to engage in the business of transporting passengers for hire” between Detroit and Mt. Clemens, pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 209, Pub. Acts 1923. The defendant has made return to the writ. By stipulation, the transit company was made a party defendant, with rights as though the writ had issued as to it, and it now moves to dismiss the writ as improvidently granted, for the reason that, as the statute provides a specific method for…