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Rural Transit Company vs. Public Service Commission

RURAL TRANSIT COMPANY, petitioner-appellant, vs. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, respondent.

G.R. No. 34780 | 1931-09-16

D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J:

The admitted facts in this test case present for decision the legal question of whether the purchaser of the rights of a holder of a certificate of public convenience must pay the fixed fee for a new certificate of public convenience.

The Public Service Law, Act No. 3108, as amended, provides that no "public service" shall operate in the Philippine Islands without having first secured from the Public Service Commission a certificate of public convenience (sec. 15 [i]). The commission is authorized to collect from any public service a fixed fee for each certificate of public convenience (sec. 27). Each...