Patton v. Texas Liquor Control Board

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellant (as plaintiff) against Honorable Tom Johnson, County Judge of Travis 'County, and the Texas Liquor Control Board (as defendants), in the 126th Judicial District of Travis County, as a statutory appeal, under Art. 667-6, Sec. (e), Vernon’s Penal Code, from the County Judge’s order deny*100ing plaintiff a “Beer Retailer’s Off-Premises License’,’ upon the sole ground that this premises for which permit was sought are (in the opinion of the judge) within a “dry area.”

The case was submitted to the District Court, sitting without a jury, as an…