Sanderford v. State ex rel. Lauten

SIMPSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree granting a temporary injunction restraining appellants from gaming or permitting gaming to be carried on in a certain storehouse in Baldwin County, known as the .Bay Sport Shop.

The bill was filed by the State of Alabama on relation of William R. Lauten as solicitor of the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit under the provisions of Article 5, Chapter 46, Title 14, sections 293-302, Code of 1940, which authorize gaming, etc., places to be abated as public nuisances.

The pertinent provision of the gaming statute is found in section 263,…