THE OLD DYERS’ ARMS: AN INTERESTING APPLICATION: An unusual application was made with respect to the licence of the Old Dyers’ Arms. Mr. F. E. Smith (Messrs. Pinsent and Co., Birmingham) said he represented Ethel Lucy Atkinson and Mary Ann Atkinson, executors of Osborne Atkinson, deceased, the proprietors of the house, and Jack Sylvester, the licensee, and he applied for a temporary transfer of the licence of the Old Dyers’ Arms, Spoil Street, from Jack Sylvester to Ernest Barlow. The only difficulty was that he could not produce the licence, and his contention was that it was unreasonably withheld, and this being so, the Bench were enabled to grant him a duplicate under Section 2 of the Licensing Act, 1842, as enlarged by Section 41 of the Licensing Act, 1872. His only need was to prove that, and he proposed to do so. He should like to reserve, if he might, the opportunity of going more fully into the facts with regard to this withholding, if the Bench thought, after calling his witnesses, that more evidence was required.
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