Ex Parte Harvell

GARDNER, Justice.

For the abatement of a liquor nuisance, the circuit solicitor filed proceedings in the equity court and obtained preliminary injunction against defendant J. H. Harvell. The hill also sought “padlock proceedings” against the premises, and the chancellor issued such an order as part of a preliminary injunction, and declined to permit defendant to reopen his premises for lawful purposes upon execution of a bond, a .course pursued in the decree here reviewed in Joiner v. State, 232 Ala. 522, 168 So. 885. And in Ex parte Hill, 229 Ala. 501, 158 So. 531, it was observed that the…