Pittsburg Brewing Company's Brewer's License

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 176
• 1899 Pa. Super. LEXIS 229

Syllabus

<p>Brewer's license — Jurisdiction, Q. S. — Interest of applicant in other breweries — Statutes—Acts of 1891 and 1897.</p> <p>Under the Act of July 80, 1897, P. L. 464, the court may legally grant a brewer’s license although the applicant may be interested in another brewery in the same county. The power to grant a brewer’s license is-not taken away from the court of quarter sessions and given to the state-treasurer under the said act.</p> <p>An interest in a brewery is not within the purview of the clauses of the petition required by the act of 1891 relative to other places where liquors-are sold or kept for sale; and however these clauses may be construed the act of 1897 authorizes the grant of' more than one brewery license to the same person by the court of quarter sessions, and to this extent repeals them if they are inconsistent with this provision of the late act.</p> <p>The authority given the state treasurer to issue a qualified license cannot be viewed as a repeal of the act of 1891 as to brewers; it operates-rather in the nature of a proviso, and leaves unaffected the jurisdiction given to the quarter sessions by the Act of June 9, 1891, P. L. 257.</p>