Astarita v. Liquor Control Commission

In this appeal from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas sustaining the plaintiff’s appeal from the liquor control commission’s denial of his application for a grocery store beer permit, the facts are not in dispute and may be summarized as follows: The plaintiff, seeking a grocery store beer permit for the premises at 80 Pratt Street in the city of Meriden, requested the defendant James J. Bartis, as zoning enforcement officer of Meriden, to certify that the Meriden zoning laws did not prohibit the sale of alcoholic liquor under such a permit at that location. The premises in question…