State ex rel. Bourquin v. Morris

The defendants P. J. Morris and his wife occupied the second and third floors of the Vroom Block in Butte, and used the premises, ostensibly, at least, as a rooming-house. This suit was instituted by the state, on the relation of the county attorney of Silver Bow county, to have the premises declared to be a nuisance, and to have the nuisance abated.

It is charged: (1) That the premises were used as a place of prostitution with the knowledge and consent of the defendants; and (2) that on the premises intoxicating liquors were kept, sold, bartered and otherwise disposed of contrary to law. The…