Puget Sound Navigation Co. v. Department of Public Works

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Thurston county, reversing an order of the department of public works, which order amended a “good faith” steamboat certificate for service between Port Ludlow and Seattle to include ferry service in the amended certificate.

Chapter 248, Laws of 1927, p. 382, which became effective June 8, 1927, required steamboat companies thereafter operating to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity. The act also provided that a certificate should be granted to a steamboat company if on January 15, 1927, such company was actually…