Rossi v. O'Connell

The petitioner seeks an order to annul a determination of the State Liquor Authority which disapproved his application for a restaurant liquor license and to direct the authority to issue a license to him.

The petitioner, now sixty-six years old, came to the United States from Italy in 1906 and in 1914 became a naturalized citizen. From 1914 until the advent of prohibition in 1919 he was the owner and licensee of a bar in this city and during the period of this operation had no clash with the authorities. There is no claim that he is not a decent, law-abiding citizen.

He visited his mother…