Booker Hotel Corporation Liquor License Case

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

This is an appeal by Booker Hotel Corporation from an order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County sustaining the action of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board in refusing to transfer a hotel liquor license.

The court below heard “the application de novo on questions of fact, administrative discretion and such other matters as are involved, . . .” Act of April 12, 1951, P. L. 90, §464, 47 PS §4-464.

In lieu of taking testimony before the court, the matter was considered upon the testimony taken before the Board.

The court below found that Girard College…