Rein's License
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 93, Oct. T., 1915, by Robert B. Elzey, from order of Q. S. Montgomery Co., March T., 1915, No. 13, granting a retail liquor license in the Matter of the Petition of Louis Rein for a Retail Liquor License. Petition for a retail liquor license. The third clause of the petition was as follows: Third.
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Appeal, No. 93, Oct. T., 1915, by Robert B. Elzey, from order of Q. S. Montgomery Co., March T., 1915, No. 13, granting a retail liquor license in the Matter of the Petition of Louis Rein for a Retail Liquor License. Petition for a retail liquor license. The third clause of the petition was as follows: Third. The said Louis Rein is a citizen of the United States, and was born in Germany. [If naturalized, as follows]: and was naturalized at Philadelphia, in the County of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania on the ..........day of August, A. D. 1888. The court granted the license. / Error…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Kepi-iart, J.,
The Act of 1887 provides that tne court shall grant licenses to persons of temperate habits and good moral character. It was held in Sauer’s License, 23 Pa. Superior Ct. 463, that this requisite was not a necessary jurisdictional fact to be averred in the petition. We cannot control the means employed to satisfy the discretion lodged in the court below in ascertaining the existence of these facts. The court may, of its own knowledge, know of it, or it may secure information from other sources. Therefore, matter in connection with the hearing, wherein this question is…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Sauers's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
- Walsh's LicenseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904