Shearer's License
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 3, April T., 1904, by Thomas Shearer, from order of Q. S. Allegheny Co., March T., 1904, No. 836, refusing a liquor license, In re Application of Thomas Shearer. Application for a retail liquor license. From the record it appeared that a remonstrance was filed against the application, and that many of the names signed to the remonstrance were duplicated. The court refused the license. Error assigned was the order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The record in this case shows that the license was refused after hearing, and is regular in every particular. But says counsel: “If we could imagine an applicant for license filing a petition with the names .in duplicate, as was done by the remonstrants in this case, and the fact should come to the attention of the court, that fact alone should prevent the license. Why then should it not work the other way, and the applicant be given the benefit of the issue when no other questions were raised against him ? ” The answer is plain enough. Assuming for a moment that in view of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Kelminski's LicenseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
- Commonwealth v. George W. Kerns & Bro.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Netter's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Miller's Application for Wholesale Liquor LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
- Brown's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Cambria County Liquor LicensesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
- Cambria County Brewers' LicensesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
- Empire Brewing Company's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1911
- Moore's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1914