State v. Hall
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This was a case certified from the Oyer and Terminer of the county of Hunterdon, and was heard before the- Chief Justice, and Justice Bedle. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion delivered.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The Chief Justice.
The first point on which the advisory opinion of this court is asked is, whether a ten-pin alley, kept for gain, in a populous village, and open to public use, is, per se, a disorderly house or public nuisance.
It seems to me that, unless we are prepared to disturb the well settled principles of law which belong to this subject, this interrogatory cannot be answered in the affirmative. In *159a legal point of view, a house may be disorderly in two ways, viz., first, from the end or purpose to which it is appropriated ; and second, from the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Blewett v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1872