Besso v. Southworth

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee against appellant, to enjoin him from permitting a bawdy house to be kept upon certain property owned by him. in the city of Corsicana, and to recover damages caused by the nuisance.

The allegations of the petition show that the defendant was the owner of a house and lot in the city, and that the plaintiff owned other houses and lots in the same vicinity, upon one of which he resided with a wife and children—the other being used “for rental purposes;” that for two years previous to the filing of the petition the defendant had rented…