People v. K. Hovden Co.

THE COURT.

Defendant corporation, the proprietor of a sardine cannery at Monterey, California, with a reduction plant as an allied business, appeals from so much of a. decree in equity entered in this cause as declares the said reduction plant a nuisance and abates it by closing it for one year, during which period it is consigned to the custody of the court.

It is conceded by defendant that it took for use in said plant during a given period of time more than thirty-two and one-half per cent of the edible sardines or other fish received by it. The principal by-products of the reduction process…