227 N.E.2d 638 | Ohio Ct. App. | 1967
This is an appeal by a permit holder from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court of Hancock County affirming an order of the Liquor Control Commission suspending appellant's liquor permits for a period of 14 days. The transcript of the proceedings before the commission shows that its order was entered on a charge that one William Johns, an agent of the permit holder, "was convicted * * * for violating in and upon the permit premises Section
Appellant's first and second assignments of error, that the commission's order is against the manifest weight of the evidence and is contrary to law, are based upon allegations which are not portrayed by the record. The transcript of the proceedings before the commission does not show what transpired "off the record," and this court cannot determine whether any competent evidence was excluded by the commission from its consideration. The evidence proffered by the permit holder to the Common Pleas Court was acknowledged by its attorney not to be newly discovered and was properly excluded by that court. Section
In its third assignment of error appellant claims that subparagraph (A) of Section
Although the quoted clause of Section
Permits to carry on the liquor business issued under the provisions of the Liquor Control Act are mere licenses which may be revoked or suspended as therein provided and create no contract or property right. By reason of the harmful potentialities incident to the conduct of such business, a person who applies for and is issued a permit to sell alcoholic beverages thereby assents to and subjects himself to the provisions of the Liquor Control Act regulating the revocation or suspension of such permit. State, ex rel. Zugravu, v.O'Brien,
This court finding no error, the judgment of the Common Pleas Court affirming the order of the Liquor Control Commission is, itself, affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
MIDDLETON and YOUNGER, JJ., concur. *14