Fritts v. Wallace

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

The issue before the Court is whether a municipality may validly limit the issuance of permits to sell beer to regularly established grocery store[s], the majority of the gross sales of which are derived from the retail sale of groceries, and which store has been regularly established for twelve (12) months prior to the filing of an application for a beer permit.

We uphold the requirement that an applicant for a beer permit be a regularly established grocery store as reasonably related to the furtherance of the legitimate interest in protecting the public health, morals…