In re the Law & Order Society

Citations

• 185 Pa. 572
• 40 A. 92
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 754

Syllabus

<p>Liquor laws — Remonstrances—Mandamus—Practice, Q. 8.</p> <p>A petition for a mandamus to compel the judges of the quarter sessions to hear and consider remonstrances against the granting of liquor licenses was founded on remonstrances against forty-two different persons scattered through twenty-two different wards of a city. The remonstrances were upon printed blanks, but the blank spaces calling for statements that the remonstrants were residents of the ward in which the licenses were applied for were not filled up. A number of the remonstrances were signed by the same persons though the places were in different wards. There was nothing to show that the remonstrants were citizens or residents of the commonwealth. Held, that the petition should be dismissed.</p>