Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission v. Wilson

JOHN E. POWERS, Justice (Retired).

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (the “Commission”) appeals from a district-court judgment that reverses a Commission order denying Richard and Donna Wilson’s application for an alcoholic-beverage license. We will reverse the district-court judgment and dismiss the appeal.

THE CONTROVERSY

After the Commission denied their application for a beer-and-wine license, the Wil-sons filed in district court, on August 12, 1998, their “Original Petition Appealing Refusal of Alcoholic Beverage License.” Therein, the Wilsons prayed that the court set the cause for…