Hamilton v. Whitridge
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. In this case an injunction was granted upon a bill filed by the appellees, on the 29th of April 1856, restraining the appellant from occupying and using a house which she had purchased, on Frederick street, in the city of Baltimore, as a house of ill-fame. The allegations of the bill and answer are fully stated in the opinion of the court below.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. In this case an injunction was granted upon a bill filed by the appellees, on the 29th of April 1856, restraining the appellant from occupying and using a house which she had purchased, on Frederick street, in the city of Baltimore, as a house of ill-fame. The allegations of the bill and answer are fully stated in the opinion of the court below. After answer filed a motion to dissolve the injunction was made by the defendant, and testimony, to support the allegations of the bill, was taken under the act of 1835, ch. 380. The purport of this…
1Opinion of the CourtTuck, J.
The injunction in this case was granted upon a bill stating that the appellees are owners of property in the city of Baltimore, in the immediate vicinity of a house which the appellant had purchased, and to which she intended to remove, for the purpose of keeping a house of ill-fame, in which business she had been for a long time, and was then engaged. The bill charges, also, that in addition to the wrong and injury inflicted upon them, in common with other citizens of that city, by the occupation of the premises for the unlawful and immoral purpose complained of, “the complainants will be…
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