Tri-State Motor Transit Co. v. United States

Tri-State Motor Transit Co., a common carrier, made application to purchase the irregular route authorities of H. Messiek, Inc., a contract carrier, and to convert them to common carrier rights. It also sought to tack together the authorities of Messiek and simultaneously to tack its own operating rights onto the newly acquired rights of Mes-sick for a proposed single-line service. 1 The Interstate Commerce Commission approved Tri-State’s authority to acquire Messiek, but denied it permission to tack the newly acquired rights onto Tri-State’s present authority, thus precluding the…