renting automobiles

renting automobiles
A business, of great proportions in modern times, for the furnishing of automobiles to customers at airports, railroad stations, bus stations, hotels, etc. under leases providing for the payment of a fixed rental, the automobile to be driven by the lessee. A business consisting mainly in furnishing automobiles from a central garage on orders generally by telephone is not an agency for public use or a public utility. Terminal Taxicab Co. v District of Columbia, 241 US 252, 60 L Ed 984, 36 S Ct 583. See hired automobile clause.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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