In re Becker
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Bankruptcy. On exceptions to decision and order of referee in bankruptcy.
1Opinion of the Court
McPHERSON, District Judge.
Whatever may he the accurate description of a license to soil intoxicating liquor in Pennsylvania,— whether it he a personal privilege, merely, or a personal privilege and something more, — this much, at least, is certain: it has a money value, varying in different places, and for different reasons. The statutes of the state permit a license to be transferred, subject to the approval of the court of quarter sessions; and I regard it, therefore, as so far property, “which prior to the filing of the petition [a bankrupt] could by any means have transferred,” that the…
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