Jowdy v. State Liquor Authority

Judgment unanimously affirmed with costs. Memorandum: Special Term properly annulled appellant State Liquor Authority’s determination which denied petitioner-respondent’s application for a special on-premises liquor license for a restaurant-tavern. The authority gave as its reasons for its disapproval that petitioner’s father is one of two Town Justices in the town where the tavern is located; that from 1944 to 1954 the father was licensed by the authority and operated the tavern; that thereafter he was the landlord of the premises until 1967 when the father became a Town Justice, at which…