People Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Detroit Mortgage Corp.

This is an appeal by the Realty Mortgage Corporation from a decree of the circuit court in Wayne county, restraining the keeping of a nuisance and for its abatement. The Lansing apartment building in the city of Detroit contains 6 floors with 52 apartments. On the 22d of December, 1928, the attorney general filed a bill of complaint in the Wayne circuit alleging that the building was being used for the purpose of storing, possessing and selling intoxicating liquors, and as a resort for various disorderly persons, mostly colored, including prostitutes, panderers, thieves, narcotic addicts,…