United States v. Richards

The power of legislatures to declare premises where intoxicating liquor is unlawfully manufactured, kept, or sold to be public nuisances, and the equitable jurisdiction of courts, under as well as independently of statutory authorization, to abate such nuisances by injunction, without the right of trial by jury, has been frequently recognized and sustained. Mugler v. Kansas, 123 U. S. 623, 8 Sup. Ct. 273; State ex rel. Att’y Gen. v. Stoughton Club, 163 Wis. 362, 365, 158 N. W. 93; State ex rel. Att’y Gen. v. Thekan, 184 Wis. 42, 198 N. W. 729; State v. Zimmerman, 317 Ill. 197, 148 N. E. 5;…