E. J. Korvette, Inc. v. State Liquor Authority

The petition herein challenges, by way of an article 78 proceeding, a determination of the State Liquor Authority which denied petitioner’s application for a license to sell liquor for off-premises consumption and granted such a license to Al’s Liquors, Inc.

It appears without contradiction that petitioner owns 40% of the voting stock and 38% of the total outstanding stock of Alexander’s Department Stores, Inc. (hereinafter Alexander’s). It owns the same percentages of the stock of Retail Realty, Inc. Alexander’s owns all the stock of Al’s Liquors, Inc., now the holder of a license for a…