People Ex Rel. Allegan Prosecuting Attorney v. Harding

This is an appeal by the prosecuting attorney of Allegan county on behalf of the State, from a decree entered in the circuit court for said county dismissing his bill of complaint. The prosecuting attorney had'started the suit seeking to ábate an alleged nuisance owned and operated by the defendants in the village of Douglas in said county. The essential part of the statute on which the prosecuting attorney relied, * commonly referred to as the “padlock” law, is as follows: 1

“Any building, * # * or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation or prostitution or gambling, or used by, or…