Keim's License

Citations

• 59 Pa. Super. 631
• 1915 Pa. Super. LEXIS 132

Syllabus

<p>Liquor law — Petition for retail liquor license — Averment as to other business — Surety—Statutes—Construction of.</p> <p>1. 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>2. In general, where the words of a statute are plainly expressive of an intent, not rendered dubious by the context, they are not to be departed from merely because the court may be of the opinion that a different provision would more effectively accomplish the general purposes the legislature had in view.</p>