...be shown that an applicant was in bona fide operation as a contract carrier by motor vehicle on July 1, 1935, "over the route or routes or within the territory" for which application is seasonably made, and has so operated since that time. It is therefore contended that, since applicant...

...a predecessor in interest was in bona fide operation as a common carrier by motor vehicle in 1934, over the route or routes or within the territory for which application is made and has so operated continuously since that time, or if engaged in furnishing seasonal service only, was in bona fide and...

...a predecessor In interest was in bona fide operation tin a common carrier by motor vehicle in 1934 over the route or routes, or within! the territory...for which application is made, and has so operated continuously since that time— And so forth. When they came over to the issuing of permits to contract...

...Provided, however, That, * * * If any such carrier or a predecessor In interest was In bona flde operation as a common carrier by motor vehicle on June 1, 1935,...application is made and has so operated since that time, * * * the Commission shall issue such certificate without requiring further proof that public convenience...

...grant a certificate or permit, if the applicant or a predecessor in interest was in bona fide operation on June 1, 1935, over the route or routes or within...which application is made, and has so operated since, except as to interruptions of service over which applicant or its predecessor in interest had no control....

...things, that if a carrier was in bona fide operation as a contract carrier by motor vehicle on July 1, 1935, over the route or routes or within the territory...application is made and has so operated since that 1 Under the go-called "grandfather" clause provisions of section 209 (a) of the Motor Carrier Act,...

...engaged in "bona fide operation" as a common or contract carrier by motor vehicle on the statutory date, "over the route or routes or within the territory...application is made and has so operated since that time * * *." It has frequently been held, particularly in connection with common-carrier operations, that...

...(261-262). Applicants must have been in bona fde operation as contract carrier by motor vehicle on July 1, 1935, "over the route or routes or within the territory for which application is made" and have "so operated since that time," to be entitled to a permit under ''grandfather" provisions of the...

...thereunder that an applicant, or his predecessor in interest, shall have been "in bona fide operation as a common carrier by motor vehicle on June 1, 1935, over the route or routes * * * for which application is made and has so operated since that time." Protestants contend that...

..."or a predecessor in interest was in bona fide operation as a common carrier * * * on June 1, 1935, within the territory for which application is made and has so operated since that time, * * *." In other words, an applicant which acquired the rights of a carrier subsequent to June 1, 1935,...