Thomson v. United States

This direct appeal from a statutory three-judge district court involves important problems relating to “grandfather” rights to a certificate as a common carrier by motor vehicle in a single coordinated rail-motor freight service. The final decree of that court dismissed appellant’s petition to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, 31 M. C. C. 299. The Commission’s order had denied to the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, of which appellant is trustee, a certificate of public convenience and necessity as a common carrier by motor vehicle under the so-called…