Matter of Standard Food Products Corp. v. O'Connell

The State Liquor Authority has suspended for a period of thirty days the wholesale liquor license held by the petitioner-appellant and has directed a forfeiture of its bond.

According to the record before us, the petitioner-appellant is engaged in the wholesale liquor business in the city of New York, serving between 3,500 and 4,000 customers to whom it makes deliveries in its own trucks except in the Staten Island area where a licensed liquor truckman is hired. Due to the unusual demands for popular brands of whiskey, the leading distillers developed a practice of furnishing wholesalers with…