Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. Wells

Under Chapter 13700, Acts of 1929, the operation of “any motor vehicle for the transportation of persons or property for compensation on any public highway in this State” is lawful only after “having obtained from the Railroad Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity requires or will require such operation.”

The purpose of Chapter 13700, Acts of 1929, is not only to regulate the use of the public highways by motor vehicles for compensation, but, in order to conserve the public roads and the safety of the traveling public thereon, to exclude from the…