Miller's Application for Wholesale Liquor License
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 204, April T., 1898, by Godfrey Miller, from decree of Q. S. Beaver Co., March Sess., 1898, refusing application for license to sell liquors at wholesale. Application for license to sell liquors at wholesale. ■It appears from the record that a petition was filed on January 27, 1898, and on March 28,1898, the license was refused. Godfrey Miller appealed. Errors assigned were (1) in not hearing the witnesses for the applicant. (2) In not granting the license.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
It is too well settled to require citation of authority, that (1) the court of quarter sessions may in its discretion, after hearing the applicant or giving him an opportunity to be heard, refuse an application for a wholesale liquor license, although no remonstrance be filed; and, (2) is not required to put on record its reasons for doing so. Nor does the fact that the order omits to state that it was made after bearing raise the presumption that no opportunity to be heard was accorded the applicant. The Act of June 9, 1891, P. L. 257, provides, “ that the court shall fix by rule…
2Cited by3 opinions
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- Quinn's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Shearer's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904