American Brewing Company's License
Citations
- 161 Pa. 378
- 29 A. 22
- 1894 Pa. LEXIS 702
Syllabus
<p>Wholesale liquor license — Discretion of court — Review—Act of 1891.</p> <p>A judge has lawfully exercised his discretion' in refusing a wholesale liquor license under the act of June 9, 1891, P. L. 257, where he states in his opinion that he had personal knowledge of the facts pertinent to the case, and made careful inquiry as to the necessity of the license, and the fitness of the applicant, and that having a due regard to the number and character of the petitioners for said license, and considering the best interests of the community and of the county at large, together with the facts and information had and obtained as aforesaid, and exercising what was considered a sound discretion, the application was refused.</p> <p>In such case the refusal of the application was in the exercise of a sound legal discretion and therefore not reviewable by the Supreme Court.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the topic of “economic well-being of the Commonwealth” would turn the germaneness requirement into a nullity
- rejecting an argument that all the challenged amendments were germane to the single topic of the “economic well being of the Commonwealth,” as that would render the germaneness test meaningless
- deeming “the economic well being of the Commonwealth” as so broad a unifying topic as to render the germaneness test meaningless
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Judges: Fell, Green, McCollum, Sterrett, Williams
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