Souza v. Public Utilities Commission

By writ of certiorari, Daniel H. Souza, doing business under the name of City Drayage Company, is challenging an order made by the Public Utilities Commission by which it suspended his licenses as a radial highway common carrier and a highway contract carrier. The question for decision is substantially the same as that presented in Samuelson v. Public Utilities Commission, 36 Cal.2d 722 [227 P.2d 256].

As in the Samuelson case, the facts are not in dispute. It appears that in 1946, after working for 11 years for a trucking company, Souza started his own business. At the time of the hearing, he…