Court Opinion

ID: 9648525
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:25:22.457196+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:06:33.716169
License: Public Domain

HUGHES, Justice.
I respectfully dissent partly because I am a devout believer in the constitutional declaration and mandate that “monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free government, arid shall never be allowed”. Art. 1, § 26, Texas Vernon’s Ann.St. Constitution.
Specifically I am of the opinion that the application and order were ■ sufficient and that the order was reasonably supported by substantial evidence.
In any event the judgment should be re- ■ versed and the cause remanded because the trial court improperly admitted and pre^- ■ sumably considered evidence that Transport Company of Texas had purchased additional equipment suitable for the trans- . portation of chemicals subsequent to the time the Commission entered its order.
If a carrier can thus “patch up” and overcome a finding of the Commission that the present service was inadequate because of tire lack of such equipment then existing carriers will be entrenched in a monopolistic field so long as they correct, before trial, inadequacies found by the Commission and made the basis of its- order. This, in my opinion, should not be the law.