Adams v. Public Service Commission
Adams v. Public Service Commission
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Complaint having been filed alleging that this appellant was operating motor vehicles as a common carrier of passengers, without having procured a certificate of public convenience, the Public Service Commission, after a full hearing, ordered the appellant, on September 15, 1919, his servants and agents to cease and desist from operating motor vehicles as a common carrier for the transportation of passengers, unljil he had obtained from the Commission a certificate of public convenience, in approval thereof. The appellant subsequently applied for a certificate of public convenience, approving his operations as a common carrier of passengers, which
The appellant, in his testimony before the Public Service Commission, substantially admitted that he had, prior to September 15, 1919, been operating a motor vehicle, a taxicab, as a common carrier in the transportation of passengers, but positively denied that he had so operated subsequently to the date of the said order of the commission. The Public Service Commission having found that the appellant had operated a motor vehicle in a manner which violated this order, the only question here presented is, was there competent evidence sufficient to warrant the finding that the appellant was operating his motor car in the carrying of passengers for hire in such a manner as to constitute him a common carrier. There was testimony which, if believed, established that the appellant was the owner of a motor vehicle which was operated by himself as a taxicab, upon the public streets of New Kensington, Westmoreland County, and vicinity. He would keep his car standing upon the public streets, at the railroad station and other places of pub-
The order of the commission is affirmed and the appeal dismissed at cost of the appellant.
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- Public Service Commission — Public Service Company Law — Common carrier — Automobiles—Operation as a common carrier. An’ order of the Public Service Commission, addressed to an owner of an automobile, commanding him to cease and desist from the operation thereof as a common carrier, and subsequently fining him for failure to obey the order of the commission, will be sustained, where the evidence established the fact that the respondent operated his car as a taxicab upon the public streets of the municipality, solicited passengers at the railroad station and other places of public resort, and gave receipts for money paid as “taxicab Service” and “fares.” Where the finding of the commission, that the respondent was operating as a common carrier was based on competent evidence, its decision will not be reversed on appeal.