Board of Selectmen v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission

For many years prior to July, 1983, Wayside Package Store, Inc. (Wayside), had held a license for the sale of all alcoholic beverages not to be drunk on the premises (G. L. c. 138, § 15, as most recently amended by St. 1981, c. 351, § 68) in a building located on land owned or controlled by Wayside’s principals which was located on the Boston Post Road in Sudbury. In that month the building and the portion of the premises containing the building were sold to a stranger to these proceedings who thereafter conducted an auto parts business on what he had purchased. By reason of the eleventh…