In re Sperring

Citations

• 7 Pa. Super. 131
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 252

Syllabus

<p>License law — Refusal by lay judges — No reason essential.</p> <p>Associate lay judges have the power to make an order refusing a license, and they are not obliged to file any reasons for their decisions.</p> <p>Record imports verity — Not to be impeached by certificate of president judge.</p> <p>The record of the court showed the following order signed by the two associate judges, “Now, the 27th of December, 1897, license is refused after due consideration; ” Held, that the record must be accepted as absolute verity; so long as it remains uncorrected by appropriate proceedings it cannot be contradicted, overthrown or weakened in its effect by the mere certificate of the president judge denying its truth.</p>