People v. Piazza

This action was instituted under the “Red-light Abatement Act” (Stats. 1913, p. 20). The judgment rendered in the action declares a certain two-story building owned by defendant Piazza “to be a building where lewdness, assignation and prostitution was, at the timb of the filing of the complaint herein, carried on, and was then and there a public nuisance,” and, further, orders that the sheriff “be, and he is hereby authorized and directed forthwith to remove all occupants from said building and to remove all personal property therefrom and to keep said building closed for a period of one (1)…