Brown v. State, Department of Business Regulation, Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco

This is an appeal of an administrative order that denied appellants’, Charles Brown and John L. Liutermoza, request to record a lien upon a special liquor license and denied appellants’ application for transfer of that license. We affirm.

The licensed premises are owned by appellants. In March, 1978, appellants leased this property and transferred the subject license to the present licensee, Jacob’s Ladder, Inc. After several lease violations, appellants and Jacob’s Ladder placed in escrow an executed transfer application that would allegedly facilitate the transfer of the liquor license back…