Railroad Commission v. Williams

BLAIR, Justice.

This case is companion to the case of Railroad Commission et al. v. Bates, 108 S.W.(2d) 286, this day decided by this court. The controlling issues of fact and law are the same, and copies of the briefs in the Bates Case have been filed as the briefs in this case. In the instant case, appellee Wesley Howard Williams alleged that he was engaged prior to the effective date of the Federal Motor Carrier Act ol 1935, 49 U.S.C.A. §§ 301-327, in transporting interstate merchandise exclusively by some four motor trucks over the highways of Texas; that he filed his application with the…