Texas & P. Ry. Co. v. Railroad Commission

BAUGH, Justice.

This suit was filed by six railroad, companies operating in Texas, and one common carrier motor carrier of freight over the highways, against the Railroad Commission and Thomas G. Hunter to set aside a special commodity permit granted by the Commission to Hunter on March 8, 1937, under the provisions of Sec. 6(d) of the Motor Carrier Law as amended by the Acts of 1937, 45 Leg., p. 651, Ch. 321, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 911b, § 6(d). Trial was to the court without a jury upon an agreed statement of facts, and the plaintiffs denied any relief; hence the appeal.

The permit in…