In re McKibbins
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 5, Feb. T., 1900, by John G. Scouton, from decree of Q. S. Sullivan Co., directing transfer of liquor license to keep a hotel. Opinion by Rice, P. J. W. D. Porter and Beeber, JJ., dissent. Petition for transfer of a hotel liquor license. Before Kraus and Lire, associate judges. It appears from the record that the petition set forth all the facts necessary under the existing law for original applications for liquor licenses.
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Appeal, No. 5, Feb. T., 1900, by John G. Scouton, from decree of Q. S. Sullivan Co., directing transfer of liquor license to keep a hotel. Opinion by Rice, P. J. W. D. Porter and Beeber, JJ., dissent. Petition for transfer of a hotel liquor license. Before Kraus and Lire, associate judges. It appears from the record that the petition set forth all the facts necessary under the existing law for original applications for liquor licenses. The petition, however, did not disclose the ground on which the transfer was asked for. Objections to the transfer were filed by John G. Scouton the landlord…
1DissentW. D. Portee, J.
A license to sell liquors at retail, at a hotel owned by John G. Scouton, was duly granted to Henry McKibbins, who, for a time, continued to exercise the privilege thereby conferred. He, on March 21, 1899, filed in the office of the clerk of the court of quarter sessions a petition to the court, praying for the transfer of the license to another building. On April 3, 1899, a remonstrance, duly sworn to, against the transfer was filed by Scouton, the owner of the licensed hotel. On April 4, 1899, the court acting by the associate judges made an order trans*425ferring the license as prayed for,…
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