Foster's License
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 180, Oct. T., 1914, by Robert G. Foster, from order of Q. S. Phila. Co., April T., 1914, No. 1, refusing application of license as a money lender. Petition for license as a money lender. The case turned upon the constitutionality of the Act of June 5, 1913, P. L. 429. Error assigned was order refusing the license.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Kephart, J.,
The questions presented by this appeal have been decided in the case of Com. v. Young, in an opinion recently handed down by the Supreme Court. There it was held that the Act of June 5, 1913, P. L. 429, relative to the making of small loans, was unconstitutional. We quote from the concluding paragraph of that opinion: “In what we have said our purpose has been simply to show that the one certain effect of the act is to create a distinct class out of persons having in common, as between themselves, no peculiarities whether of person or business, or anything else, thus…
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