Dietrich's License
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 4, March T., 1916, by Harvey Dietrich, from order of Q. S. Montour Co., granting retail liquor license. Petition for retail liquor license. Before Evans, P. J. Error assigned was order granting license.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
The statement of the questions involved submitted by the appellants may be summarized as follows: Have two lay judges authority to grant a license to sell liquor without giving any reason for their action and in the face of the finding of the president judge that there was overwhelming testimony of violations of the law on the part of the applicant? Counsel for the appellants concede that under the decisions of our court “the testimony is not part of the record, the lower court is not required to give the reasons for its decision-in license cases and two lay judges can…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Windber Brewing Co. No. 2's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1913
- English's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
- Chilcott's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1915