Lang Transp. Corporation v. United States

The intervener, Cantlay & Tanzola, Inc., a California corporation, filed on January 30, 1941, an amended application with the Interstate Commerce Commission, requesting a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. The petition requested the Commission to grant the intervener the right to - operate as a common carrier by motor vehicle over irregular routes in the transportation of petroleum and petroleum products in bulk, with certain exceptions. The route requested was from points in Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, to points in Nye, Esmeralda and Clark Counties, Nevada, and Washington, Kane, Iron and Garfield Counties, Utah, and return with rejected or contaminated shipments of such commodities, traversing Arizona for operating convenience when necessary.

The plaintiff, Lang Transportation Corporation, a California corporation, common carrier by motor vehicle, was issued a' Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity dated August 10, 1943, to transport petroleum and petroleum products to the same general territory which the Commission had authorized the intervener to serve by Order of April 8, 1946.

By reason of acquiring several other carriers…