English's License

Citations

• 59 Pa. Super. 621
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 131

Syllabus

<p>Liquor law — Petition for retail license — Contents of petition — Grocery store — Place—Name of applicant — Notice—Surety.</p> <p>1. An application for a retail liquor license need not set forth that groceries are not, or will not, be sold, in the place for which a license is sought.</p> <p>2. A petition for a retail liquor license need not aver that the applicant “is not engaged in the manufacture of spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors.” These words in the act apply to sureties for the applicant, and not to the applicant himself.</p> <p>3. The omission of the word “pecuniarily” in the sixth paragraph of the petition for a retail liquor license, is not a gtound for the refusal of the license, if the petitioner avers that he “is not in any manner interested in the profits of the business conducted at any other place in said county, where any of said liquors are sold and kept for sale.”</p> <p>4. A petition for a retail liquor license cannot be said to be uncertain as to the person applying for the license, where the petition avers that the name of the petitioner is Prank N. English, and he is so named in other portions of the petition, and the petition is signed “F. N. English, Petitioner.”</p> <p>5. It is not necessary in a petition for a retail liquor license to state that a surety company named as surety is organized under the laws of, or is authorized to do business within, this commonwealth. Proof of such facts may be required before the license is actually granted, but it is not absolutely essential to aver them in the petition.</p> <p>6. A petition for a retail liquor license sufficiently describes the particular place for which the license is desired, if the description identifies the place by the name of the township, by the name of a village or hamlet in that township, by the name which had become attached to the house, and by the fact that the house had been a licensed place for many years.</p> <p>7. The notice of an application for a retail liqu