Cleary v. Licensing Commission

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondént licensing commission “to refuse to issue or authorize and to revoke any approval or authorization that may have already been issued by . . . [it] for the transfer of a license issued pursuant to the provisions of G-. L. c. 138, sec. 15, from [the respondent] Silveira’s Liquor Store, Inc., 291-293 Cambridge Street in the City of Cambridge, to [the respondent] Cardullo’s, Inc., situated at 6-7 Brattle Street in the City of Cambridge.”

The respondents demurred on four grounds. Two of them were to the effect that the Legislature…