Gross's License
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 466, Jan. T., 1894, by Henry Gross, from order of Q. S. Luzerne Co., Jan. T., 1894, No. 544, refusing wholesale liquor license. Petition for wholesale liquor license. From the record it appeared that twenty-five persons certified to the temperate habits of the applicant and to the necessity of the place.
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Appeal, No. 466, Jan. T., 1894, by Henry Gross, from order of Q. S. Luzerne Co., Jan. T., 1894, No. 544, refusing wholesale liquor license. Petition for wholesale liquor license. From the record it appeared that twenty-five persons certified to the temperate habits of the applicant and to the necessity of the place. It was stated in appellant’s paper-book that a hearing was had as required by the rules of court, and that seven qualified voters of the township testified to the necessity of the place, and to the qualifications of the applicant. The court entered the following order: “ Now,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
This is the decree from which is brought this appeal:
“ Now, March 1, 1894, after hearing, sureties on the within bond are approved, and the license as prayed for is refused.”
Counsel for appellant, to sustain his appeal, argues, that as there was no denial of the necessity for the license and no allegation that the applicant was not a fit person, and as it appeared from the decree the bond and sureties were approved, the inference necessarily is, that the refusal was not the exercise of discretion, but the result of arbitrary will. Such inference is not warranted by…
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