Sabre Jet Room, Inc. v. K & L Distributors, Inc.

AREND, Justice.

The basic question for decision is whether one is liable for debts resulting from the purchase of stock for a retail liquor store merely because the liquor license for the store was in his name at the time the purchases were made.

In separate actions, consolidated for trial and for hearing on appeal, the appellees, who are wholesale liquor distributors and are hereinafter referred to as West Coast and K & L respectively, sued the appellant for unpaid amounts alleged to be owing them for liquor sold and delivered by them to the Sabre Jet Liquor Store, a retail packaged liquor…