Harris v. Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board

Malcolm E. Harris, Director of the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, appeals from an order denying the department’s petition for a writ of mandate to compel the Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board to set aside its decision reversing certain orders of the department denying petitions for the transfer and reissuance of distilled spirits wholesaler’s and importer’s licenses and ordering the revocation of those licenses.

It is stipulated that prior to 1955 Park & Tilford Distillers Corporation, a licensed manufacturer of distilled spirits, also held both a distilled spirits wholesale…