State v. Eccleston

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment forfeiting an automobile as a nuisance because it had been devoted to the business of transporting intoxicating liquors.

On November 6, 1930, the car was discovered on a busy street in Topeka. It was “double parked” in a way which prevented other parked cars from backing away from the curb. This attracted the .attention of a traffic policeman, who took the car to the police station. A newspaper in the car contained the address of Vincent Eecleston, a resident of Kansas City, Mo. The same day Eecleston…