Title: State Keg, Inc. v. State Board of Alcoholic Control

State: north-carolina

Issuer: North Carolina Supreme Court

Document:

177 S.E.2d 861 (1970)
277 N.C. 450
STATE KEG, INCORPORATED, t/a The Keg, Petitioner,
v.
STATE BOARD OF ALCOHOLIC CONTROL, Respondent.
No. 54.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.
December 16, 1970.
*864 Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan, Staff Attys. Christine Y. Denson and James L. Blackburn, Raleigh, for respondent, appellant.
Broughton & Brougton, by John D. McConnell, Jr., Raleigh, for petitioner, appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Pertinent regulations adopted by the North Carolina Board of Alcoholic Control pursuant to the authority granted by G.S. § 18-78(d) are as follows:
G.S. § 18-78 in part provides:
A violation of either Regulation or of the terms of the statute is sufficient to support the suspension of the license.
We hold that the evidence before the State Board of Alcoholic Control was sufficient to sustain the finding that on February 6, 1970 Terry Lee Delaney was intoxicated and was permitted to loiter on the licensed premises of The Keg in violation of the Board of Alcoholic Control Regulation #30(1), and that Mr. Graham Oakley, the operator of The Keg on that occasion, failed to give the premises proper supervision. Such findings were sufficient to support the order of suspension of license entered by the Hearing Officer and approved by the Board. Therefore, it is not necessary to consider the evidence concerning the loud, profane and indecent language used on the premises on February 21, 1970.
The principles governing this decision were stated by Justice Higgins in Freeman v. Board of Alcoholic Control, 264 N.C. 320, 141 S.E.2d 499:
Accord: Lampros Wholesale, Inc. v. ABC Board, 265 N.C. 679, 144 S.E.2d 895.
There is no evidence that the action of the Board was arbitrary or in excess of its lawful authority. The judgment of the Superior Court is reversed and the Stay Order entered by Bailey, J., on May 26, 1970, staying the operation of the Order entered by the State Board of Alcoholic Control on May 18, 1970, is vacated.
Reversed.