Long's License

Citations

• 65 Pa. Super. 10
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 6

Syllabus

<p>Liquor laws — Retail license — Practice, Q. 8. — T'erms of court.</p> <p>An order granting a retail liquor license will not be reversed, be- • cause, pending the filing of the petition, and the entry of the final order, the term of the judge of the Quarter Sessions terminated and another person succeeded him as judge.</p> <p>The exercise of the powers of the Court of Quarter Sessions, which require no assistance from juries,' are not in abeyance when the court is not sitting for the trial of causes and the attendance of grand and petit jurors; .all of such powers which can be properly exercised by the judge alone, may be performed at any time unless otherwise provided by law, and for the exercise of such powers each term lasts until the next one begins.</p> <p>Where an order is made by the Quarter Sessions refusing a liquor license, and a petition for reconsideration is filed in the same term, and a rule is granted returnable to the first Monday of the next term, the whole question is fairly before the court, and if in the second term the rule is made absolute and a hearing is had which results in the granting of the license, the court acts entirely within its lawful powers, and it cannot be held that such time had elapsed as made it legally impossible for a reconsideration of the earlier order.</p>