Dowda v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; Hugh A.- Locke, Judge. Bill by Joseph R. Tate, as solicitor of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of the State, against B. B. Dowda, to condemn property because of manufacture of prohibited liquors thereon. Prom decree overruling demurrer to the bill, respondent appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; Hugh A.- Locke, Judge. Bill by Joseph R. Tate, as solicitor of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of the State, against B. B. Dowda, to condemn property because of manufacture of prohibited liquors thereon. Prom decree overruling demurrer to the bill, respondent appeals. The style of the bill is the State of Alabama v. One House and Two Lots and B. B. Dowda, and it is brought by Joseph R. Tate, as solicitor for the Tenth judicial circuit, wherein the real estate is situated. The bill describes the property; alleges that the lots and buildings were in the…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
This is a suit in equity to abate a “liquor nuisance,” by condemning and confiscating the premises—a house and lot in the city of Birmingham, Ala.—alleged to be'used for the manufacture or distillation of intoxicating liquor.
Such a proceeding was sought to be authorized or provided for by an act of the Legislature of this state, approved January 25, 1919, commonly known as the Shaw Bill or the Bone-Dry law. The title of this bill-is as follows:
“To further suppress the evils of intemperance; to restrict the receipt, possession and delivery of spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented or other…
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