Legal Opinion

Pittsburg Brewing Company's Wholesale Dealer's License

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 13, 1899No. Appeal, No. 7PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal, No. 7, April T., 1900, by Lyman E. Davis, from order of Q. S. Allegheny Co., March Sess., 1899, No. 82, granting a wholesale dealer’s license. Application of the Pittsburg Brewing Company, a corporation, for a wholesale liquor license.

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Appeal, No. 7, April T., 1900, by Lyman E. Davis, from order of Q. S. Allegheny Co., March Sess., 1899, No. 82, granting a wholesale dealer’s license. Application of the Pittsburg Brewing Company, a corporation, for a wholesale liquor license. Before Shafer, J. The petition alleged inter alia that the petitioner was not in any manner pecuniarily interested in the profits of the business, at any other place in said county where liquors were sold or kept for sale, and would not be during the term of said license, except in the breweries for which brewers’ applications were made as follows…

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Smith, J.,

The Act of June 9, 1891, P. L. 257, requires all wholesale dealers, brewers, etc., to be licensed by the courts of quarter sessions, and to pay an annual license fee for each separate store, brewery, etc. It requires the courts to fix by rule or standing order a time at which “ all persons ” applying for license, or objecting to applications, may be heard. It requires “ every person ” intending to apply for a license to file a petition containing certain averments, among which is the following:

“ 6. That none of the applicants are in any manner pecuniarily interested in the…

2Cited by4 opinions

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