State ex rel. Attorney General v. Williams

The action resulting in this appeal was to abate a public nuisance. Ark. Stat’s, Title 34, §§ 34-101 - 34-106.

The prosecuting attorney for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit alleged that Bert Williams was the owner of a building immediately south of the City of Stuttgart, known as Log Cabin Inn, where public dancing was conducted and beer was sold.

The place was leased to Bay Dunnigan and was operated by him in such a manner as to constitute a public nuisance. The circuit judge, presumptively under authority of § 34-106, issued a temporary order restraining Williams and Dunnigan, their agents,…