Brindle v. Copeland
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Before Judge Wright. Floyd superior court. August 14, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
1. A lewd house is per se a public nuisance (4 Bl. Com. 168; Joyce on Law of Nuisances, § 12), and its maintenance may be abated by injunction on petition brought by a solicitor-general in the name of the State, on the information of one of its citizens as relator. Walker v. McNelly, 121 Ga. 114 (48 S. E. 718) ; City Council of Augusta v. Reynolds, 122 Ga. 754(3), 760 (50 S. E. 998, 69 L. R. A. 564, 106 Am. St. R. 147), and cit.
2. On the trial in such proceeding, the general reputation for lewdness of the woman charged with maintaining the lewd house (in which she resides), as well as the…
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