Miller's Application for Wholesale Liquor License

Citations

• 8 Pa. Super. 223
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 44

Syllabus

<p>Liquor law — Discretion to refuse wholesale license.</p> <p>The court of quarter sessions may in its discretion after hearing of an applicant or giving him an opportunity to be heard, refuse an application for a wholesale liquor license although no remonstrance be filed.</p> <p>Appeals — Liquor law — Refusal of license — Presumption of regularity.</p> <p>Every reasonable intendment is to be made in favor of the regularity of the proceedings of courts of record where they have jurisdiction of the subject-matter and the parties. Hence it is to be presumed, in the absence of anything to the contrary, and the appellate court will consider that the license court performed its duty by fixing a time at which all applicants had an opportunity to be heard and that the license was refused for a legal reason, and not arbitrarily.</p>