Chilcott's License

Citations

• 61 Pa. Super. 552
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 370

Syllabus

<p>Liquor laws — Refusal of license — Local option district — Division of district — Appeals—Review.</p> <p>An appeal from an order refusing a liquor license is in effect but a certiorari, yet where the court sets forth in the record as part of its final order the reasons for its action, the appellate court will determine whether the reasons thus assigned are legal reasons; and the same rule applies where the reasons are not set forth in the order itself, but are stated in an opinion filed in the proceedings.</p> <p>Where a district has been created a local option district under the Act of April 3, 1872, P. L. 804, but has been subsequently divided into different municipal divisions, the aggregate vote of the whole territory as originally constituted, governs the question of “license” or “no license” for all the new divisions, and not the vote of each division.</p>