Cadena Comercial USA Corp. D/B/A Oxxo v. Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission

When this shameful transaction is published to the world it will be seen what a vile system this brewing monopoly, may become .in the hands of unscrupulous persons. Thank God the tied house contains the seeds of destruction within itself, and the day will come—perhaps not *339in my time or in yours, but it will come, to a certainty—when this shameful monopoly will be tolerated no more.1

That was the losing party’s condemnation of England’s pervasive tied-house regime in what is remembered as the “one man one drink” case. At the turn of the nineteenth century, an Englishman named Elliott Downs Till…