Spackman v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This appeal by B. M. Spackman, trading as Eastern States Transportation Company, is from an order of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, finding that she was not a bona fide contract carrier within the “Grandfather Clause” of Article VIII, section 804(a) 1 of the Public Utility Law of May 28,1937, P. L. 1053, 66 PS §1304(a), and accordingly refused her application and directed her to cease and desist from transporting property in common carriage between points in Pennsylvania.

The application was protested by the interveners herein on the ground that the service…