Baltimore Retail Liquor Package Stores Ass'n v. Board of License Commissioners

The case is one of construction of a statute. Section 21 of article 2B of the Code (Supp. 1935), enacted at the Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly in 1933, chapter 2, on the subject of licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages, provides that no more than one license, except by way of renewal, shall be issued to any person. for the use of any corporation in any city of the State, arid no more than one for the same premises, .“provided that in Baltimore City any * * * corporation operating more than one restaurant or hotel or more than one re tail drug store at the time of the…