Murray's Liquors, Inc. v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission

General Laws c. 138, § 34B, provides that a licensed seller of alcoholic beverages who reasonably relies upon a Massachusetts driver’s license as proof of sufficient age to purchase such beverages will be presumed to have exercised *101due care in mating the sale. Murray’s Liquors, Inc. (Murray’s), sold alcoholic beverages to four minors, three of whom presented false out-of-State drivers’ licenses as proof of their ages. On appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court affirming the decision of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (commission) upholding the local licensing board’s (board)…