In re the Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 7, April T., 1899, by Schoenhofen Brewing Company, from decree of Q. S. Allegheny Co., March Sess., 1898, No. 153, refusing application for a wholesale liquor license. Application for liquor license. Before Slagle, J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. The court below refused the application assigning as reason, “ Refused for the reason that the applicant is a foreign corporation.” Applicant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 7, April T., 1899, by Schoenhofen Brewing Company, from decree of Q. S. Allegheny Co., March Sess., 1898, No. 153, refusing application for a wholesale liquor license. Application for liquor license. Before Slagle, J. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. The court below refused the application assigning as reason, “ Refused for the reason that the applicant is a foreign corporation.” Applicant appealed. Error assigned was refusing the application for the license.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
In this case the license was refused “ for the reason that the applicant is a foreign corporation.” The application set forth, inter alia, “ that the petitioner is a citizen of the United States,” and “ a corporation organized under the laws of Illionois for the purpose of the manufacture and sale of beer of its own make, and has its general office in tbe city of Chicago, and is registered as a foreign corporation under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.” Thus, the fact upon which the refusal is based, was conceded, and the only question presented to this court is…
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