Kania v. Liquor Control Commission

The liquor control commission revoked the plaintiff’s tavern permit because he had kept on his premises alcoholic liquor of a kind he could not legally sell under such a permit.

At the hearing before the commission held on October 17, 1949, it was undisputed that both whiskey and gin had been found in back of the bar in the plaintiffs tavern on July 29, 1949, and that the plaintiff had made a practice of selling such liquor for about a month prior to that time. There was also evidence upon which the commission might reasonably have found that when an inspector visited the plaintiffs tavern…