Blazis v. Bechtel

Citations

• 256 Pa. 529
• 100 A. 967
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 652

Syllabus

<p>Liquor licenses — Necessity ■ — -Old applicants — Right of remonstrants to he heard — Disagreement of Quarter Sessions judges— Mandamus — Supreme Court, original jurisdiction.</p> <p>Where remonstrances were filed to petitions for the regranting of certain retail liquor licenses, on the ground of want of necessity, and the two judges of the Quarter Sessions Court disagreed as to whether the remonstrants should be heard on such question, so that by the date of the expiration of the old licenses no hearing had been held and no licenses granted, the Supreme Court thereafter awarded a writ of mandamus at the instance of the applicants for such licenses, naming the two judges of the lower court as respondents and directing them to proceed forthwith to pass upon the applications for the licenses and remonstrances thereto.</p>