Court Opinion

ID: 9816242
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 02:46:21.185827+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:04:09.502872
License: Public Domain

On the merits.

Per Curiam.

Little Shirley’s, Inc., a permit holder, appealed six orders of the Board of Liquor Control to the Com*181mon Pleas Court of Franklin County. The penalties in the six orders ranged from 21 days suspension to revocation. The appeal from the decisions of the board was perfected by the receiver of Little Shirley’s, Inc., appointed by the Common Pleas Court of Franklin County, and the cause was submitted for decision upon the transcript of proceedings before the board, briefs, arguments and a motion by the permit holder to introduce additional evidence. The court refused to admit the alleged newly discovered evidence and sustained the orders of the board as supported by reliable, probative and substantial evidence and in accordance with law, from which judgment and final order this appeal is taken.
No assignment of error is presented in appellant’s brief, but the gist of counsel’s argument is that the value of the assets in the hands of the receiver, formerly belonging to the permit holder, would be substantially reduced if the revocation order stands. Such an argument leads to the conclusion that the appeal to the Common Pleas Court and to this court is, in effect, by creditors represented by the receiver and not by the permit holder. We do not determine whether such an appeal has standing under the provisions of Section 119.12, Revised Code, since the point was not raised. It is sufficient to say that such argument has little to do with the regularity of the decisions of the board and the affirming of them by the Common Pleas Court.
Supreme Court decisions in State, ex rel. Zugravu, v. O’Brien (1935), 130 Ohio St., 23, and in Abraham v. Fioramonte (1952), 158 Ohio St., 213, make it abundantly clear that a permit to carry on the liquor business is a license revocable under the law, and creates no property right. That rule of law is applicable in the instant ease.
Counsel for the appellant urge that courts should apply a rule suggested in the case of Wrightesmith v. Public Utilities Commission (1963), 174 Ohio St., 537, and relax the severity of attitude in liquor permit cases. It is doubtful if the Wrightesmith case, supra, is in any way comparable to the instant case. Further, it must be pointed out that the state of Ohio has undertaken to control all phases of the liquor business in the exercise of the police power and for the protection of public morals. A principle device used in the exercise of that control is the permit system. To infringe upon, or in any way limit, the fight *182to issue or revoke permits in accordance with applicable law would be to undermine the fundamental purpose of the law.
The suffering creditor well knew the risks inherent in a business dependent upon a license or permit but elected to take it. Until the Legislature has a change of heart or the Supreme Court indicates a softening of attitude towards the permit holder, or his creditors, existing rules apply.
The judgment of the Common Pleas Court is affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.

Duffy, P. J., Duffey and Troop, JJ., concur.