Horn's Motor Express, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Kenworthey, J.,

Horn’s Motor Express, Inc. has taken an appeal, in which Daily Motor Express, Inc. joins as intervening appellant, from an order of the Public Utility Commission granting a certificate of public convenience to Horlacher Delivery Service, Inc. (now Highway Express Lines, Inc.), intervening appellee.

In granting certificates of public convenience, the Public Utility Commission performs a purely legislative function. It exercises a power delegated to it by the legislature to grant franchises. The Legislature’s declared policy furnishes the limitations upon the performance…