Case Name: Buckeye Stages, Inc., et al. v. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1931-06-03
Citations: 124 Ohio St. 148
Docket Number: No. 22788
Parties: Buckeye Stages, Inc., et al. v. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Jones, Matthias, Day and Kinkade, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 124
Pages: 148–151

Head Matter:
Buckeye Stages, Inc., et al. v. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
(No. 22788
Decided June 3, 1931.)
Mr. Ralph Sanborn and Mr. Beecher W. Waiter-mire, for plaintiffs in error.
Mr. Gilbert Bettman, attorney general, and Mr. T. J. Herbert, for defendant in error.
Mr. D. H. Armstrong, for the Chillicothe-Hillsboro Stages, Inc.

Opinion:
By the Court
(Allen, J.).
The commission has found that the extension of route granted to the Chillicothe-Hillsboro Stages, Inc., is required by public convenience and necessity. This finding is amply sustained by the evidence. The question which confronts us, hence, is not that of the extension of a certificate where the public convenience and necessity does not require the extension. Since upon hearing it is shown that the instant order will safeguard essential transportation service between Hillsboro and Chillicothe, where the operation of the Chillicothe-Hillsboro Stages, Inc., is the only transportation service, and will also establish this new service between Yera Cruz and Milford via Newtonsville, required by the public convenience and necessity, the commission has not exceeded its powers. Buckeye Stages, Inc., has never operated over Route No. 131 between Yera Cruz and Milford. The possible curtailment of traffic to Buckeye Stages, Inc., on the through route, is obviated by proper restrictions.
Buckeye Stages, Inc., criticizes the final form of restriction established, amending the restriction originally set forth in the order. The final restriction reads as follows: "Conditioned that no persons be transported whose entire ride is between Hillsboro and Cincinnati, nor between Hillsboro and tbe intersection of U. S. Route No. 50 and Ohio State Route No. 131, nor between Milford and Cincinnati."
Since State Route No. 131 intersects United States Route No. 50, both at Yera Cruz and at Milford, this criticism is justified.
We therefore affirm the order, but remand the case to the Public Utilities Commission for a more specific statement of the limitations to be imposed upon transportation over the route granted.
Order affirmed.
Marshall, C. J., Jones, Matthias, Day and Kinkade, JJ., concur.