Interstate Motor Transit Co. v. Public Utilities Commission

These two proceedings in error were heard together in this court, and will be disposed of in one opinion.

The plaintiff in error in case No. 21184, J. P. Grubb, doing business as the Tri-State Transit Company, filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission for a certificate to operate an interstate motorbus line between the city of Columbus, Ohio, and the city of Huntington, W. Va., and return. The route designated in the application passed through the border cities of Portsmouth and Ironton, Ohio, crossed the Ohio river at Ironton to Russell, Ky., and thence through the states of…