S. & L. Straus Beverage Corp. v. Commonwealth

The Commonwealth recovered a judgment against S. & L. Straus Beverage Corporation, defendant, for $694.04 deficiency in wholesale merchant’s license for 1942 and 1943, which we are asked to reverse because contrary to the law and evidence. The facts were stipulated and are these, so far as they need be stated:

The defendant, a Virginia corporation, is a wholesale merchant of wine and beer in Richmond. It buys the beer it sells only from manufacturers (brewers), located in Virginia and elsewhere. In reporting the amount of its purchases of beer in order to secure wholesale merchant’s license…