In re Riffle

Citations

• 74 Pa. Super. 410
• 1920 Pa. Super. LEXIS 165

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law — Title of Act of May 8, 1919, P. L. 167 — Refunding money received for liquor license.</p> <p>Tbe Act of May 9,1919, P. L. 167, entitled “An act providing for tbe refunding of liquor license fees and additional taxes to wholesale and retail dealers, brewers, distillers, rectifiers, compounders, bottlers, agents, and other persons, prevented from engaging in business by order or regulation of the president or secretary of war; providing for tbe return of tbe proportions thereof paid to municipalities and tbe Commonwealth; and making an appropriation,” does not give sufficient notice, to county officials or others interested, that the counties of the Commonwealth were to be charged with the responsibility of refunding money, received on account of payment for liquor licenses. In so far as it is attempted to charge the county with the burden of refunding such license fees, the act disregards the provisions of section 3, of article III, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and is of no effect.</p> <p>Liquor licenses — Alcoholic drinks — Amount of alcohol in beverages — Act of Congress of November &1, 1918 — Wwr Time Prohibition Act.</p> <p>The amount of alcohol in the beverages sold under authority of a retail liquor license is not the test in Pennsylvania. If a licensee continued to sell liquors containing less than one-half of one per cent of alcohol, he was not prohibited by the order or regulation of. the federal authorities from engaging in business and was, therefore, not entitled to the return of installments paid on account of license fees.</p>