# Forst's License

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · April 11, 1904 · 208 Pa. 578

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6247595

## Case

- **Full name:** Forst's License
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** April 11, 1904
- **Citations:** 208 Pa. 578; 57 A. 991; 1904 Pa. LEXIS 805
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Mitchell
- **Judges:** Brown, Dean, Fell, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Potteb, Potter, Thompson
- **Cited by:** 7 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Mr. Chief Justice Mitchell
dissenting:
The business of selling intoxicating liquors is not unlawful, nor is the act regulating the granting of licenses a criminal or even a penal statute requiring a rigid enforcement of the letter. On the contrary it is a statute applying to the everyday business of the community, and one which particularly requires a common sense business construction. Judged by that standard, the signature of a firm is the signature of all the members of it, and for all useful purposes in the requirements of the statute, it should be so accepted. I do not concur therefore in the view that the petition in the present case was lacking in the necessary jurisdictional facts. I would therefore reverse the judgment and reinstate and affirm the judgment of the quarter sessions.
Mr. Justice Thompson concurs in the dissent.

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