State Ex Rel. Hutton v. City of Baton Rouge

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Relator, F.landers H. Hutton, being desirous of continuing the operation as a common carrier of a motor bus line wholly within the corporate limits of the City of Baton Rouge over certain designated streets and roads and between fixed termini and on a fixed schedule and for certain designated fares, instituted a proceeding in the district court seeking a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent, City of Baton Rouge, to issue to him a certificate of public convenience and necessity so that' he might continue such operations,, and praying in the alternative that the-city be…