Legal Opinion

City of St. Ignace v. Snyder

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided July 11, 1889Published

Error to Mackinac. (Steere, J.) Defendant was convicted as a disorderly person under a city ordinance for keeping a bawdy-house, and sentenced to pay a fine of $100. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtMorse, J.

Snyder was convicted in justice’s court of being a disorderly person within the meaning of and contrary to the provisions of an ordinance of the city of St. Ignace, in this: That he kept a bawdy-house, a house of ill fame, an assignation house, a place for the resort of prostitutes and to which place common prostitutes resorted; and *650also that he was the proprietor and keeper of a disorderly bar-room, and a disorderly public house, room, and place, where drunken men and lewd women congregated and associated, and where they habitually met and associated, and there indulged in lewd, lascivious,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Wisconsin, Iowa & Nebraska Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1889

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