Ridge v. State Ex Rel. Tate
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Richard Evans, Judge. Bill by the State of Alabama on the relation of Joseph R. Tate, as Solicitor of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, against Nora J. Ridge, to abate a nuisance. From an order overruling demurrers to the bill and granting the writ, respondent appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Richard Evans, Judge. Bill by the State of Alabama on the relation of Joseph R. Tate, as Solicitor of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, against Nora J. Ridge, to abate a nuisance. From an order overruling demurrers to the bill and granting the writ, respondent appeals. The allegations of the bill are that the respondents are conducting a hotel at a designated and particularly described place in the city of Birmingham, and that they are maintaining or abetting a nuisance at said place in the practice of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution, which is a…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
[1] This proceeding is filed under the act approved February 12, 1919 (Gen. Acts 1919, p. 52), which is entitled:
“An act to declare and abate nuisances defined in the act, .and to prescribe procedure, remedies, punishments, and penalties.”
The nuisances dealt with by the act (section 1) are defined as:
Any “building, erection, or place or any separate part or portion thereof, or the ground itself; * * * in or upon which lewdness, assignation or prostitution is conducted, permitted, continued, or exists, and the personal property and contents used in conducting or maintaining any such place for…
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