Legal Opinion
Somerset Importers, Ltd. v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 19, 1990No. 88-P-923PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
What produced the controversy is that Somerset Importers, Ltd. (Somerset), refused to sell to New England Liquor Sales Co., Inc. (New England), as much Tanqueray gin, a brand name product, as the latter wanted to buy. This raised the question whether, within the meaning of G. L. c. 138, § 25E, the statutory phrase “refusal to sell” means a partial curtailment of sales as well as an entire discontinuance of sales.
The Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) concluded that the limitation on quantity which Somerset sought to impose transgressed the statute and ordered that Somerset sell to…
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