CHECKER, INCORPORATED v. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Nos. 5651, 5670.

446 P.2d 981 (1968)

CHECKER, INCORPORATED, dba Checker Cab Company, Petitioner, v. The PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION of Nevada, Reese H. Taylor, Jr., Noel A. Clark, and Evo A. Granata, Respondents. Victor F. WHITTLESEA, dba Whittlesea Blue Cab Company, Petitioner-intervenor, v. The PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION of Nevada, Reese H. Taylor, Jr., Noel A. Clark, and Evo A. Granata, Respondents. Victor F. WHITTLESEA, dba Whittlesea Blue Cab Company, Petitioner, v. The Honorable Llewellyn YOUNG, the Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada and the Public Service Commission of Nevada, Respondents. Union CAB CO., Petitioner-Intervenor, v. The PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION of Nevada, Reese H. Taylor, Jr., Noel A. Clark, and Evo A. Granata; and the Honorable Llewellyn Young and the Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, Respondents. Ace Cab Company and Yellow Cab Company, Amici Curiae. Cab Employees, Automotive Workers and Warehousemen Local #881, Amicus Curiae.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

November 8, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer M. Gunderson, Las Vegas, for petitioner Checker, Inc., dba Checker Cab Co.

Hilbrecht & Jones, Las Vegas, for petitioner Victor F. Whittlesea, dba Whittlesea Blue Cab Co.

Bell & Morris, Las Vegas, for petitioner Union Cab Co.

Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen., and John Sheehan, Deputy Atty. Gen., for respondents.

Gabe Hoffenberg, Las Vegas, amicus curiae on behalf of Ace Cab Co. and Yellow Cab. Co.

I.R. Ashleman, II, Las Vegas, amicus curiae on behalf of Cab Employees, Automotive Workers and Warehousemen Local #881.


OPINION

MOWBRAY, Justice.

This is an original application by Checker, Incorporated, dba Checker Cab Company and Victor F. Whittlesea dba Whittlesea Blue Cab Company in certiorari to review an order of the Public Service Commission of Nevada dated June 3, 1968. The applicants contend that the entry of the June 3 order, which bears upon the number of taxicabs they and other cab companies may operate in Clark County, was in excess of the Commission's jurisdiction...

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