Newman v. State ex rel. Barlow

This is a suit in chancery to abate as a common nuisance a garage at which intoxicating “liquors are found, kept or possessed . . .” The principal question is whether the chancellor was manifestly wrong in holding that appellant conducted no lawful business on the premises, and in therefore padlocking the place in toto.

The statute in question, Code of 1942, Section 2646, provides: “Any club, vessel or boat, place or room where liquors are found, kept or possessed or any boat or vessel used in any of the waters of this State in conveying airy intoxicating liquors or any person-with…