McCanless, Com'r v. Klein

Klein is a wholesale liquor dealer in Memphis. His license was suspended for a period of six months by the Commissioner of Finance and Taxation for violation of a regulation promulgated by-the commissioner, the pertinent part of which reads as follows:

“Prom and after the effective date of this regulation no wholesale liquor distributor shall add an additional brand to his stock without first securing the written approval of the Commissioner.”

On the bearing before the commissioner, in response to an inquiry, counsel for Klein stated that no question was made that this regulation (Number 36)…