Adams v. Public Service Commission

Citations

• 77 Pa. Super. 381
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 279

Syllabus

<p>Public Service Commission — Public Service Company Law — Common carrier — Automobiles—Operation as a common carrier.</p> <p>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.”</p> <p>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.</p>