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New Mexico Transp. Co. v. State Corporation Commission

Supreme Court of New Mexico
Apr 9, 1947
178 P.2d 580 (N.M. 1947)

Opinion

No. 4987.

February 10, 1947. Rehearing Denied April 9, 1947.

Appeal from District Court, Santa Fe County; William J. Barker, Judge.

Atwood Malone, of Roswell, and R.E. Kidwell, of Dallas, Tex., for appellants.

C.C. McCulloh, Atty. Gen., Robert W. Ward, Asst. Atty. Gen., and G.H. Little, of Amarillo, Tex., for appellees.


The State Corporation Commission issued certificates of necessity and convenience to Jim Ferguson to operate two bus lines between Hobbs and Roswell, one via Lovington and Artesia and the other via Tatum. Appellants protested the granting of the permits where Ferguson proposed to operate over the parts of the routes where they operated. None of the protests covered the route between Lovington and Artesia.

The protestants then filed suit to enjoin the issuance of the certificates under the provisions of Sec. 68-1363, 1941 N.M.S.A., on the grounds the action of the Commission was unlawful and unreasonable. The District Court declined to issue the injunction.

The Court may enjoin the issuance of such a certificate only when the record shows the order of the Commission was unlawful or unreasonable. We construed this statute in Harris v. State Corporation Commission, 46 N.M. 352, 129 P.2d 323, and are satisfied with the statements there made. Following the rules there announced, we are unable to say from an examination of the record that the order of the Commission granting these certificates was either unlawful or unreasonable. It is not sufficient that we might have reached a different conclusion.

The judgment of the District Court will be affirmed, and it is so ordered.

BICKLEY, C.J., and BRICE, LUJAN, and SADLER, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

New Mexico Transp. Co. v. State Corporation Commission

Supreme Court of New Mexico
Apr 9, 1947
178 P.2d 580 (N.M. 1947)
Case details for

New Mexico Transp. Co. v. State Corporation Commission

Case Details

Full title:NEW MEXICO TRANSP. CO., INC., ET AL. v. STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION ET AL

Court:Supreme Court of New Mexico

Date published: Apr 9, 1947

Citations

178 P.2d 580 (N.M. 1947)
178 P.2d 580

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