Source: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/315/57/
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 02:37:19+00:00

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1. Decided upon the authority of United States v. Rosenblum Truck Lines and United States v. Margolies, ante, p. 315 U. S. 50. P. 315 U. S. 59.
2. That the application was for either a common carrier certificate or a contract carrier permit, rather than for only a contract carrier permit, does not distinguish this case from the Rosenblum and Margolies cases. P. 315 U. S. 59.
3. The Commission's order denying "grandfather" right to the applicant in this case is not vitiated by absence of findings as to whether the common carrier with whom the applicant's arrangements for hauling were made was acting as a broker during the period in question, and as to whether the applicant's name was carried on his equipment. Findings on these two points were not "quasi-jurisdictional." P. 315 U. S. 59.
Appeal from a decree of a District Court of three judges dismissing a petition to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission under the Motor Carrier Act of 1935.
This is a companion case to United States v. N.E. Rosenblum Truck Lines, Inc., and United States v. Margolies, ante, p. 315 U. S. 50. It is a direct appeal from the final decree of a specially constituted three-judge district court [Footnote 1] dismissing appellant's petition to set aside an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission denying appellant's application under the "grandfather" clauses of Sections 206(a) and 209(a) of the Motor Carrier Act of 1935 [Footnote 2] for operating authority as a "common" or "contract" carrier by motor vehicle.
loadings to, Hendricks. Appellant received the total revenue less ten percent on southbound loads and the total revenue on northbound loads. On "express" traffic, he received a flat rate of eighty cents per hundred pounds. Shippers' claims generally were paid in the first instance by Hendricks, and then charged back to appellant.
In January, 1938, appellant engaged a solicitor of his own, established terminals, and apparently discontinued the operations previously conducted in connection with other carriers.
"was not the fulfillment of engagements in consequence of a holding out to the general public, but primarily was the hauling of traffic for motor common carriers. [Footnote 4]"
While the application in the instant case is for a common carrier certificate, or, in the alternative, for a contract carrier permit, rather than for a contract carrier permit, as in United States v. N.E. Rosenblum Truck Lines, Inc. and United States v. Margolies, that difference is without legal significance. The question in both situations is whether the applicant was a carrier, either common or contract, within the meaning of the Act prior to June, 1935, and continuously thereafter to the date of the hearing. For the reasons set forth in the Rosenblum and Margolies cases, the decision below must be affirmed.
to enter the order, and hence was not "quasi-jurisdictional." Cf. United States v. Baltimore & Ohio R. Co., 293 U. S. 454, 293 U. S. 462-463; Florida v. United States, 282 U. S. 194, 282 U. S. 214-215. One of the findings of the Commission, which appellant may not attack, [Footnote 5] was that appellant hauled "for Hendricks, a common carrier by motor vehicle," and the Commission was satisfied from the evidence before it that Hendricks, and not the appellant, was the carrier in respect to the operations in which appellant was engaged. It was therefore immaterial whether Hendricks acted as a broker in connection with some other operations. Whether appellant's name was on his equipment can only be a factor bearing on the ultimate issue. It is in no sense "quasi-jurisdictional."
Convened pursuant to the Urgent Deficiencies Act of 1913, 38 Stat. 220, 28 U.S.C. §§ 47 and 47a, and § 205(h) of the Motor Carrier Act of 1935, rearranged by the Transportation Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 899, as § 205(g) of Part II of the Interstate Commerce Act.
The Motor Carrier Act of 1935 is now designated as Part II of the Interstate Commerce Act. 54 Stat. 919.
Since the evidence upon which these findings were made is not included in the record before us, appellant may not here attack them. Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co. v. United States, 292 U. S. 282, 292 U. S. 286, and cases cited.
24 M.C.C. 141 at 147.

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