SILVERMAN'S LIQUOR MART v. Licensing Bd. for Boston

This is a bill in equity to compel specific performance by the defendants 1 of written agreements to purchase the plaintiffs’ 2 stock in Silverman’s Liquor Mart, Inc. (corporation), and to purchase certain real estate. It also seeks, inter alia, an order directing the Licensing Board for the City of Boston (board) 3 to approve “with out . . . reservations” a petition for transfer of stock. The defendants filed a plea in bar and demurred to the bill. The board also demurred. The plaintiffs and the corporation appeal from interlocutory decrees sustaining the demurrers and the plea in bar, 4 and…