Johnson's License

Citations

• 156 Pa. 322
• 26 A. 1066
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1350

Syllabus

<p>Liquor laws — Distiller’s license — Act of June 9, 1891.</p> <p>Where the petition, bond and other papers of an applicant for a distiller's license are in accordance with the requirements of the act of June 9, 1891, P. L. 257, and no remonstrance is filed against the petitioner, and a large number of qualified voters certify to the good moral character of the applicant and to his fitness to be intrusted with such a license, the court cannot arbitrarily, and without any expression of opinion, refuse a license.</p> <p>On an application for such a license the court has power to consider the questions of the necessity of the license for the accommodation of the public, and the fitness of the applicant for the grant of the license. But the refusal upon either of these grounds is not to be a mere arbitrary refusal, but only such a refusal as is the result of an opinion to be formed after a due regard has been given to the number and character of the petitioners for and against the application.</p>