East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Motor Transportation Co. v. Carden

Acts 1929, chapter 58, included in the Code of 1932 as sections 5471 et seq., is a general statute comprehensive in its terms, designed to regulate the use of public highways by persons engaged in the business of transporting passengers and property for hire. Its constitutionality is challenged by the appellants herein.

The appellee, referred to herein as the Transportation Company, complainant in the court below, is a cor poration, engaged in the business of transporting passengers and freight between Johnson City and Shell Creek, via Elizabethton, in Washington and Carter Counties, for the…