Pastime v. State ex rel. Powers
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM KNOX. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox County, to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court. — • Yon A. Hueeakee, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
A petition was filed by the State, on relation of J. Pike Powers, city attorney of Knoxville, to have declared a nuisance The Pastime, as a place of business for the sale of intoxicating liquor in violation of law, conducted by defendant Lester Rogers, where sales were alleged to have been made by defendant Newman. The owner of the building, Patterson, was also made a defendant.
The allegations are those usually appearing in a petition filed under what is popularly known as the “nuisance act,” referred to below.
The circuit judge and the court of civil appeals were alike of opinion that, on the…
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