Case Name: Dowling's License
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1913-12-17
Citations: 55 Pa. Super. 497
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 150
Parties: Dowling's License.
Judges: Before Rice, P. J., Henderson, Or-lady, Head and Porter, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 55
Pages: 497–499

Head Matter:
Dowling's License.
lAquor law — Transfer of license — Appeals—Review.
Where a petition for the transfer of a retail liquor license sets forth all the facts that are essential to the jurisdiction of the court,, and it is stated in the order that it was made after hearing, and no irregularity appears in the record, the appellate court will not reverse the order in the absence of anything on the record from which an inference of ah abuse of discretion could be drawn. In such a case the evidence is not before the appellate court, and the decision of the lower court upon any question of fact cannot be reviewed.
Argued Dec. 3, 1913.
Appeal, No. 150, Oct. T., 1913, by Andró Stremba, from order of Q. S. Schuylkill Co., Jan. T., 1913, No. 508, transferring liquor license in re Petition of William J. Dowling for Transfer of Retail Liquor License of Andró Stremba, in First Ward of Mahanoy City.
December 17, 1913:
Before Rice, P. J., Henderson, Or-lady, Head and Porter, JJ.
Affirmed.
Petition for transfer of liquor license.
The order was as follows:
And now, June 16, 1913, after hearing, the sureties on the bond of the above-dated application are approved and the transfer of license as prayed for is granted, upon payment to the said Andró Stremba of the full amount of the license fee for the current year. It is further ordered that a duplicate license be issued to the said William J. Dowling by the clerk of the court as the original license is in the hands of the said Andró Stremba.
Error assigned was the order of the court.
R. P. Swank, with him John 0. Adamson, for appellant, cited:
Whitlock’s License, 39 Pa. Superior Ct. 34; Schilbe’s License, 40 Pa. C. C. Rep. 496.
Arthur L. Shaw, with him M. J. Ryan, for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam,
The only matter assigned for error is the order, which is set forth at length in the assignment, transferring to William J. Dowling the retail liquor license originally granted, to Andró Stremba, the appellant. The petition for the transfer sets forth all the facts that are essential to the jurisdiction of the court, and it is stated in the order that it was made after hearing. No irregularity appears in the record, and nothing is before us from which an inference of an abuse of discretion can be drawn. As pointed out in McCabe's License, 11 Pa. Superior Ct. 560, our revisory jurisdiction is limited; it is confined to the inquiry whether the court has kept within the limits of its jurisdiction and proceeded with regularity according to law. In the determination of that question we cannot have the aid of the evidence given on the hearing. We, therefore, cannot review the decision of the court below upon any question of fact. The court having granted the transfer prayed for, we must assume that all the material facts averred in the petition were established to the satisfaction of the court by competent proof, and that there were no countervailing facts to preclude the court from exercising its discretionary power' to make the order complained of.
The order is affirmed.