Reiners's License
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 72, Oct. T., 1914, by H. D. Reiners, from order of Q. S. Huntingdon Co., Feb. Sessions, 1914, No. A, refusing a wholesale'liquor license In re Application of H. D. Reiners. Petition for a wholesale liquor license. Petition for disqualification of associate judges.
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Appeal, No. 72, Oct. T., 1914, by H. D. Reiners, from order of Q. S. Huntingdon Co., Feb. Sessions, 1914, No. A, refusing a wholesale'liquor license In re Application of H. D. Reiners. Petition for a wholesale liquor license. Petition for disqualification of associate judges. The petition to disqualify the associate judges averred, inter alia, as follows: 2. That the two associate judges of this court, E. M. Beers and W. B. McCarthy, were elected on November 4, 1913, and inducted into office on the first Monday of January, 1914. 3. Your petitioner avers that for many weeks prior to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
The statute declares that the court of quarter sessions shall fix, by rule or standing order, a time at which *193application for liquor license shall be heard, “at which time all persons applying or making objections to applications for licenses may be heard by evidence, petition, remonstrance or counsel.” The right given by the statute is to be heard by evidence and petition, not simply by evidence or petition, and this implies a right to have both evidence and petition considered by the court when both are presented and are pertinent. Courts sit to administer the law…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Schlaudecker v. MarshallSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1873
- Gross's LicenseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
- Wallace v. JamesonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
- Philadelphia Library Co. v. InghamSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1836