Scherer Appeal

Toal, J.,

This is an appeal from the refusal of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to grant a new restaurant liquor license to Gaven Scherer and Kathryn Scherer, his wife, for premises situated on the Baltimore Pike, Wawa, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The restaurant has been conducted at this site by the parties for more than 21 years under the assumed or fictitious name of “Chicken-In-A-Basket”. The testimony was taken before Judge Toal, on December 13, 1961, and was argued before the court en banc on February 26, 1962.

The reasons given by the board for the…