Whyte

The plaintiffs, five in number, are either co-partnerships or corporations, and are engaged in the general trucking business in the City of Sacramento, carrying and hauling, by means of motor-trucks, articles of merchandise, commodities, materials, and other personal property of every kind and description, “which may be offered to plaintiffs generally to be carried and hauled,” over, upon, and across the streets of said city, “both to and from points entirely within the territorial limits of said city and to and from points outside of the territorial limits of said city to and from points therein, ’ ’ and for that purpose the plaintiffs own and operate over, upon, and across the streets of said city motor-trucks “having a carrying capacity of one ton and of more than one ton.” In other words, the plaintiffs are, and for several years last past have been, engaged in the business of transporting freight from point to point within the limits of said city and from points outside of said limits to points within said limits and vice versa and for that purpose have used and are now using motor-trucks of a ton and of more than a ton carrying capacity.

The defendants, other than the City…