Legal Opinion

DeHaven's License

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 30, 1906No. Appeal, No. 154Published

Appeal, No. 154, April T., 1906, by Robert L. DeHaven, from order of Q. S. Butler County, Feb. Term, 1906, No. 32, refusing^ a wholesale liquor license In re Application of Robert L. DeHaven. Petition for wholesale liquor license. Before Galbreath, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was the order of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

The single assignment of error is: “ The court erred in refusing the application of R. L. DeHaven for a wholesale li*336cense.” But in the appellant’s statement of the question involved the first is : “ Whether in a borough having a wholesale liquor trade of between three to four thousand dollars per annum, the refusal of all wholesale license on the only grounds of not necessary, is a judicial discretion or an arbitrary one.” This is a broader question than that raised bj*- the assignment of error, and even though it were to be conceded that under the facts above stated the court…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Gemas's LicenseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
  2. Weaver's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1902

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