Mead's License

Citations

• 161 Pa. 375
• 29 A. 21
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 701

Syllabus

<p>Liquor latos — Wholesale license — Discretion of court — Practice, quarter sessions — Act of June 9, 1891.</p> <p>Where a judge has indorsed his refusal of a liquor license on the application, and handed it down, he may at any time during the same session of the court place on file his reasons for so doing.</p> <p>A judge has lawfully exercised his discretion in refusing a wholesale liquor license under the act of June 9, 1891, P. L. 257, where he gives as his reason for the refusal that there was no necessity for more than two wholesale licenses in the town, that the applicants were not fit persons to whom such licenses should be granted, and that “ having a due regard to the number and character of the petitioners for said license, and considering the facts and information had and obtained as aforesaid, the best interests of the community and of the couuty at large, and exercising what the court considered sound discretion, the application was réfused.”</p>