Reed's License
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 179, Oct. T., 1917, by O. 0. Dodd, from order of Q. S. Clearfield Co., Jan. Sessions, 1917, No. 82, granting a retail liquor license In re Application of John F. Reed. Petition for a retail liquor license. Before Bell, P. J. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was order granting the license.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
The testimony forms no part of the record in a liquor license case. Where the court sets forth in an opinion in connection with the order the reasons for its action we may inquire whether the reasons are legal reasons: Ohilcott’s Licenses, 61 Pa. Superior Ct. 552; Venango County Liquor Licenses, 58 Pa. Superior Ct. 277 (299).
In the case before us there Avas a numerously signed remonstrance containing three items, “First: There is no necessity for said license. Second: The granting of licenses to sell intoxicating liquors is harmful to the community and increases crime…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Schlaudecker v. MarshallSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1873
- Venango County Liquor LicensesSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1914
- Chilcott's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1915