People v. Schoonmaker

Defendant Schoonmaker had a grocery store, soft drink place, boat livery, gasoline filling station, and dance hall at Fisher lake, a summer resort in St. Joseph county. Defendant Martin was in-, terested with Schoonmaker in operating the dance hall. The prosecuting attorney for St. Joseph county filed the bill herein charging that the dance hall, as operated by defendants, constituted a nuisance and asked for the abatement thereof. Proofs were taken upon issue joined, and decree entered directing seizure and sale of the dance hall equipment and locking the building for one year, unless bond…