Texas & Pacific Ry. Co. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is a suit by fifteen transportation companies against the Louisiana Public Service Commission and Angelo Centineo, Inc., asking for the annulment of Order No. 2650 issued by the Commission on December 3, 1940, which granted to Centineo, Inc., a certificate of public convenience and necessity as a common carrier of special commodities over certain public highways in this State.

The defendant, Centineo, Inc., filed exceptions to the jurisdiction of the court rationae personae and rationae materia of no right and no cause of action, based on the ground that the plaintiff had…