Sauers's License

Citations

• 23 Pa. Super. 463
• 1903 Pa. Super. LEXIS 99

Syllabus

<p>Liquor law — Liquor license — Qualifications of applicant.</p> <p>An order granting a retail liquor license on a petition containing every averment specified in sections 5 and 6 oí the retail license act of May 13, 1887, P. L. 108, but omitting the averment that the applicant is a man of temperate habits and good moral character, is not void, or reversible on appeal for want of jurisdiction. The court has jurisdiction to entertain the application and grant the license upon satisfactory proof of the temperate habits and good moral character of the applicant and of other essential facts. The act does not require that the good character and temperate habits of the applicant shall be averred in the petition or certified to by twelve reputable qualified electors.</p>