Kent County Prosecutor v. Robert Emmett Goodrich Corp.

The issue is whether the civil obscenity statute may be applied to bar the showing of the film "The Devil in Miss Jones”.1

The statute provides:

"The chief executive or legal office of any city, village or charter township or prosecuting attorney of the county may institute and maintain an action in the circuit court against any person, firm or corporation to enjoin and prevent the sale or further sale or the distribution or further distribution or the acquisition or possession of any book, magazine, pamphlet, comic book, story paper, writing, paper, picture, drawing, photograph, figure or…