Petition of Sparrow
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
FOR A MANDAMUS TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF MERCER COUNTY. No. 100 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct. On May 5, 1890, George E. Sparrow filed in the Supreme Court a petition, averring that the petitioner was a citizen of the borough of Greenville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and the owner and proprietor of a hotel in said borough known as the National Hotel; reciting an application by the petitioner to the Court of Quarter Sessions of said county, at January Term 1890, for…
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FOR A MANDAMUS TO THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF MERCER COUNTY. No. 100 October Term 1890, Sup. Ct. On May 5, 1890, George E. Sparrow filed in the Supreme Court a petition, averring that the petitioner was a citizen of the borough of Greenville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and the owner and proprietor of a hotel in said borough known as the National Hotel; reciting an application by the petitioner to the Court of Quarter Sessions of said county, at January Term 1890, for a license to sell liquors at retail, at said hotel, under the act of May 13, 1887, P. L. 108, and the refusal thereof by…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson:
This was a writ of alternative mandamus directed to the honorable president judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Mercer county, requiring him to show cause why he should not grant a license to sell liquor at retail to George E. Sparrow, the petitioner. To the alternative writ, the learned judge makes a very full return, setting forth, inter alia:
■ (a) “-That the said applicant is a citizen of the United States and of this commonwealth, of temperate habits and of good moral character.(5) “That the National Hotel for which said license was prayed, was then…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Reed's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
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