Sawdey Liquor License Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Ladner,

These appeals come to us from the Superior Court on allocatur.

This case originated in an appeal to the Erie County Quarter Sessions Court from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board’s refusal to grant the appellants a hotel liquor license for their hotel in Millcreek Township of that county. The Erie County Court affirmed the Board’s refusal whereupon the appeal to the Superior Court followed which court affirmed the Quarter Sessions Court.

These are the undisputed facts. In November, 1948, appellants began construction of a hotel on the beach of Lake Erie. A year…