Alcoholic Beverage Control Division v. Barnett

Steele Hays, Justice.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Division has appealed from an order of the Pulaski Circuit Court reversing the Division’s cancellation of the permit of Delmer Barnett 1 , appellee, to sell beer at his grocery store on Kellogg Road in North Little Rock, lying in Gray Township.

In 1981 the Division discovered that a part of Gray Township thought to be “wet,” was actually “dry” as a result of a 1956 local option election. That fact had not been reported to the Division and consequently, three permits to dispense alcoholic beverages in the dry area had been issued prior to the…