Case Name: In re APPLICATION OF CLOVERLEAF MOTOR TRUCK TRANSPORTATION CO. WESTERN MICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION CO. v. MICHIGAN PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1934-04-03
Citations: 266 Mich. 534
Docket Number: Docket No. 1, Calendar No. 37,424
Parties: In re APPLICATION OF CLOVERLEAF MOTOR TRUCK TRANSPORTATION CO. WESTERN MICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION CO. v. MICHIGAN PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.
Judges: Nelson Sharpe, C. J., and North, Wiest, Butzel, Bushnell, and Edward M. Sharpe, JJ., concurred with Fead, J.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 266
Pages: 534–537

Head Matter:
In re APPLICATION OF CLOVERLEAF MOTOR TRUCK TRANSPORTATION CO. WESTERN MICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION CO. v. MICHIGAN PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.
1. Appeal and Error — Public Utilities Commission — Leave to Appeal.
General appeal taken from order of public utilities commission granting permit of public convenience and necessity to applicant to operate intercity common carrier freight service by motor vehicle pursuant to statutes, is dismissed, where leave to appeal was not first obtained, such review being by certiorari (Acts Nos. 212 and 312, Pub. Acts 1931; Court Rule No. 60 [1931 and 1933]).
2. Costs — Failure to File Brief — Appeal and Error.
Costs are not allowed to appellee who filed no brief.
Appeal from Michigan Public Utilities Commission.
Submitted January 3, 1934.
(Docket No. 1, Calendar No. 37,424.)
Decided April 3, 1934.
Cloverleaf Motor Truck Transportation Company applied for a certificate of convenience and necessity as a'common carrier of freight by motor vehicle over additional routes. Western Michigan Transportation Company, a Michigan corporation, appeals from order granting permit.
Appeal dismissed.
Francis R. Williams, for appellant.

Opinion:
Fead, J.
Appellant took general appeal, without leave, under Acts Nos. 212 and 312, Pub. Acts 1931, from orders of the Michigan public utilities commission, granting permit of public convenience and necessity to appellee, Cloverleaf Motor Truck Transportation Company, to operate common carrier freight service between Kalamazoo, Benton Harbor and St. Joseph.
The only remedy for review by this court, directly from the order of the commission, being by certiorari, leave to appeal was necessary. In re Consolidated Freight Co., 265 Mich. 340; Court Rule No. 60, (1931 and 1933). The appeal must be dismissed and the appellant left to other review provided by statute. While immaterial, it may be said that the record discloses some evidence supporting the order.
The appellees not having filed a brief, the appeal is dismissed, without costs.
Nelson Sharpe, C. J., and North, Wiest, Butzel, Bushnell, and Edward M. Sharpe, JJ., concurred with Fead, J.