Legal Opinion

Oberfell's License

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 17, 1905No. Appeal, No. 3PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal, No. 3, March T., 1905, by Frederick Oberfell, from order of Q. S. Lycoming Co., March Term, 1904, No. 16, granting a liquor license In re Application of Frederick Oberfell. Petition for liquor license. The opinion of the Superior Court states the case. Error assigned was the order of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Rice, P. J.,

The appellee’s application for a retail liquor license was in the exact form prescribed by the statute, and was complete in every particular, except that the spaces left for the names of his proposed sureties in the ninth paragraph of the printed blank were not filled. Was this a fatal defect? The statute does not require that the bond be filed with the petition but it does prescribe that the applicant set forth the names of his proposed sureties, and that this be done a certain length of 'time before the day of hearing. This statutory prerequisite was intended for the…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Pennsylvania & New York Railroad & Canal Co. v. BunnellSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1871
  2. Forst's LicenseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  3. Fourney's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1905
  4. Forst's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
  5. License of MillerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1900

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Brown's LicenseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1915

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