Legal Opinion
State v. Ellis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided February 14, 1918No. 3 Div. 319PublishedCited by 12 opinions
Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Gaston Gunter, Judge. Suit by the State against Bessie Ellis to restrain a nuisance. From a decree of the circuit court sustaining a demurrer to the bill for want of equity and dissolving the writ of injunction, the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
[1-3] On the state’s application for reinstatement of the temporary injunction in this cause pending appeal, the following opinion was rendered by Mr. Justice Gardner, at chambers:
“The bill charges the respondent with maintaining a public nuisance in the city of Montgomery on certain premises on a named street therein, in that the respondent is using the building on such premises for the purpose of a bawdyhouse, a house of prostitution, or a house of ill famp. The bill was amended by the addition of the fifth paragraph alleging that such houses were the source of venereal infection and…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Mugler v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- State ex rel. Crow v. CantySupreme Court of Missouri · 1907
- Stead v. FortnerIllinois Supreme Court · 1912
- Commonwealth v. McGovernCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1903
- State v. Mayor of MobileSupreme Court of Alabama · 1837
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Portage Township v. Full Salvation UnionMichigan Supreme Court · 1947
- Henley v. RockettSupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
- Try-Me Bottling Co. v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1938
- Dozier v. Troy Drive-In-Theatres, Inc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1956
- Corte v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
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