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SIMS WHOLESALE CO. v. BROWN-FORMAN CORP.

Record Nos. 951144, 951142.

468 S.E.2d 905 (1996)

SIMS WHOLESALE COMPANY, INC., et al. v. BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION. VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD v. BROWN-FORMAN CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip F. Abraham (Walter A. Marston, Jr., Patrick A. O'Hare; Randolph A. Sutliff; Hazel & Thomas, Richmond; McCandlish & Lillard, Fairfax, on briefs), for appellants.

John Patrick Griffin, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General; Michael K. Jackson, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., on briefs), for appellant.

C. Torrence Armstrong (Charles M. Sims; McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, on brief), Alexandria, for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, and KEENAN, JJ., POFF and WHITING, Senior Justices, and COCHRAN, Retired Justice.

COMPTON, Justice.

In these appeals in a case originating before an administrative agency, we are confronted with a question of statutory interpretation.

We are dealing with Virginia's Wine Franchise Act (the Act), Code §§ 4.1-400 through -418 (Repl.Vol.1993), a part of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act. This controversy arose in September 1989. At that time, the Act was codified in §§ 4-118.42 through -118.61 (Supp.1989). The Act's provisions...

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