Court Opinion

ID: 9653131
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:39:24.981535+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:56.529397
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KENNAMER, District Judge
(dissenting).
I concur in the opinion of the majority in so far as the same construes the Kansas Highway Act that the statute has as its purposes the regulation of the highways and taxation.
I dissent from the views expressed by the majority sustaining the constitutionality of the aet. The exemption of motor carriers who operate within radius of 25 miles beyond corporate limits of any village or city is an unreasonable discrimination in favor of such operators. The necessity for the protection of the public on the highways ■within radius of 25 miles is just as great or greater as beyond such radius, as the probabilities of damage to persons or property would be more likely than beyond such radius. The ease of Smith v. Cahoon, 283 U. S. 553, 51 S. Ct. 582, 75 L. Ed. 1264, seems to me to be controlling.