Puhl v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by Parker, J.,

The Public Utility Commission refused an application of Puhl and Falconer for a contract carrier permit under the so-called “Grandfather” clause of the Public Utility Law, and the applicants have appealed from the order so made. We think the application should have been granted.

The commission, in disposing of the matter, after hearing, treated the application as if it were one for permission to act as a common carrier and assigned as a reason for the refusal of the permit that “the applicants have failed to establish......that approval of the application is necessary or…