Ellis v. State Road Commission

Hatcher, Judge:

On Oct. 12, 1925, the State Road Commission revoked a taxi-cab permit (Class H 3) and a chauffeur’s license, both of which had been issued to Kyle Mounts of Logan County. Mounts filed a petition in this court charging that the action of the Commission was arbitrary, capricious and illegal. Upon his prayer an alternative writ of mandamus was awarded against the Commission.

In answer to the writ the Commission denied that it acted arbitrarily, etc., because, as was proven at the hearing of the case, Mounts had violated the provisions of the law contained in See. 82, Ch. 17, Acts…