In re Olewine

ARCHBALD, District Judge.

A liquor license in Pennsylvania, being transferable only with the approval of the court of quarter sessions which granted it, is held to be a privilege so purely personal that it does not pass on the death of the licensee to his legal representative as an asset of his estate (Grimm’s Estate, 181 Pa. 233, 37 Atl. 403), although there may be, under certain circumstances, a qualified responsibility for it (Buck’s Estate, 185 Pa. 57, 39 Atl. 821, 64 Am. St. Rep. 816; Mueller’s Estate, 190 Pa. 601, 42 Atl. 1021); nor will a contract for the sale of it be specifically…