State Ex Rel. Davis v. Meaher

The bill in this cause, filed by the state on the relation of the Attorney General, sought to abate alleged public nuisances consisting of a sawmill, buildings, and other structures maintained in public streets of the city of Mobile and in an area measuring approximately 75 by 2,000 feet lying alongside Bayou Marmotte, or One Mile creek in said city, and shown on the map known as the “Pillans Map,” which is recorded in Map Book 1, at page 1, in the office of the judge of probate of Mobile county, a copy of which is exhibited with the bill, whereon said area is shown as a space without…