In re Knarr
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
'ROR A WRIT OR MANDAMUS TO THE COURT OR QUARTER SESSIONS OR JERRERSON COUNTY.* No. 000 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct. (W. D.) On October 11,1889, Martin Knarr presented a petition to the Justices of the Supreme Court representing: That he was the lessee of a brewery and adjacent buildings, now in the borough of Punxsutawney, formerly in Young township, fully equipped and fitted for the manufacture of malt and brewed liquors; that he prepared and presented to the Court of…
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'ROR A WRIT OR MANDAMUS TO THE COURT OR QUARTER SESSIONS OR JERRERSON COUNTY.* No. 000 October Term 1889, Sup. Ct. (W. D.) On October 11,1889, Martin Knarr presented a petition to the Justices of the Supreme Court representing: That he was the lessee of a brewery and adjacent buildings, now in the borough of Punxsutawney, formerly in Young township, fully equipped and fitted for the manufacture of malt and brewed liquors; that he prepared and presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Jefferson county, to No. 7 February Term 1889, his application and petition for a brewers’ wholesale…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Williams:
The petitioner was an applicant for a license to sell malt and brewed liquors by the gallon and larger measure as a brewer. His application was refused by the Court of Quarter Sessions. He comes now into this court and asks a writ of mandamus requiring the judges of that court to grant his license or show cause.
*556We learn from the petition and the accompanying copy of the record the following facts, about which there is no controversy or room for doubt:
1st. The petition was actually heard at the proper time by the court.
2d. After hearing the application was refused.
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