McGettigan's Liquor License Case

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

We thought our opinion in Cheris’s Liquor License Case, 127 Pa. Superior Ct. 355, 193 A. 162, made the position of this court sufficiently clear on the question whether the Liquor Control Board can lawfully refuse to issue a restaurant liquor license where there is a restriction in the deed to the property, on which the applicant proposes to operate his license, prohibiting its use for the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors. We held that such a restrictive covenant is reasonable and legal; that it runs with the land; that it is in the nature of an easement for…