Pelican Transfer & Storage v. Kansas Corporation Comm‪.‬

The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an appeal from a judgment entered in a declaratory judgment action. (K.S.A. 60-1701 et seq.) Pelican Transfer and Storage, Inc. (Pelican) sought a declaratory judgment to obtain an interpretation of its operating rights under an intrastate certificate of convenience and necessity and to enjoin the State Corporation Commission (commission), and the Kansas Highway Patrol from interfering with its operations. Pelican is the transferee and holder of an intrastate certificate of convenience and necessity issued by the commission to operate as a motor common carrier of household goods over irregular routes, from, to, and between all points and places in the state of Kansas.