Davis v. Patterson
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 225, April T., 1899, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Mercer Co., April T., 1899, No. 45, dismissing petition for mandamus on county treasurer to refund moneys paid for license fee. Petition for writ of alternative mandamus.
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Appeal, No. 225, April T., 1899, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Mercer Co., April T., 1899, No. 45, dismissing petition for mandamus on county treasurer to refund moneys paid for license fee. Petition for writ of alternative mandamus. Before Miller, P. J. It appears from the record that plaintiff presented a petition for an alternative mandamus to be issued to defendants commanding them to issue a liquor license granted by the court upon payment of $202.75 license fee, whereupon the court ordered and directed a writ of alternative mandamus to be issued as prayed for. The order also…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
W. D. Portee, J.,
The plaintiff presented to the court below his petition, sefc ting forth, in substance, “that he had been duly granted a license to sell liquors at retail by the court of quarter sessions; that the amount required to be paid for said license by the Act of May 13, 1887, P. L. 108, and the Act of July 30,1897, P. L. 461, was $200, which amount together with the fees of $2.75, was all that he could lawfully be required to pay for the issuing of said license so granted to him; that he had tendered to E. M. Patterson, treasurer of Mercer county, the sum of $202.75, and…
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