Court Opinion

ID: 6278690
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-18 16:09:02.4488+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:00:08.495317
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Kephart, J.,
Appellant’s name does not appear among the except-ants in the court below. Its first appearance was when this appeal was taken to this coprt. When an appeal is taken from an order of á court granting a liquor license, it should be by one whose name appears on the record of the court below as a party exceptant or remonstrant. The affidavit filed by counsel when this appeal was taken that the appellant was of the “other citi: zens and residents,” does not aid the appellant or cause him to be made a party to the record. Nor would the phrase “other citizens and residents” include this appellant. It is meaningless so fár as these exceptions are concerned. Those who desire to except or remonstrate to the granting of a license must do so through their own names. They cannot remain unknown under a phrase such as here used, either for the purpose of adding weight to the exceptions or to enable an appeal to be taken by them. As was said in. Leister’s License, 55 Pa. Superior Ct. 371: “The appellants were not remonstrants in the court below, and so far as appears or is alleged, they have no interest in the matter different from all other citizens of the Commonwealth. This being so, and they not being parties to the record, they cannot be considered *562as parties aggrieved who have standing to appeal”: Lawrence County’s App., 67 Pa. 87; Gibboney’s App., 6 Pa. Superior Ct. 26; Wacker’s License, 6 Pa. Superior Ct. 323.
The appeal is quashed at the cost of the appellant.