Legal Opinion

Wiest's License

Dauphin County Court of Quarter Sessions

Decided June 16, 1937No. 156Published

1Opinion of the Court

Hargest, P. J.,

This matter comes before us upon an appeal from the refusal of the county treasurer to issue a retail dispenser’s beverage license upon an application made by appellant for such a license at a hotel situated on Main Street in the Borough of Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pa.

The reason for the refusal is that at an election held in said borough on November 3, 1936, the majority voted against the granting of such licenses. The election referred to was presumably held pursuant to section 31 of the Beverage License Law of July 18, 1935, P. L. 1217, 1243, 47 PS §100 (n), amending the…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Mayes v. WanekIllinois Supreme Court · 1909
  2. Commonwealth v. SharettsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1911

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