NEWMAN v. STATE EX REL. BARLOW

No. 39198.

221 Miss. 331 (1954)

72 So.2d 700

66 Adv. S. 21

NEWMAN v. STATE EX REL. BARLOW, DIST. ATTY.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 24, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arrington & Arrington, Hazlehurst, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


ETHRIDGE, J.

This is a suit in chancery to abate as a common nuisance a garage at which intoxicating "liquors are found, kept or possessed ..." The principal question is whether the chancellor was manifestly wrong in holding that appellant conducted no lawful business on the premises, and in therefore padlocking the place in toto.

The statute in question, Code of 1942, Section 2646, provides: "Any club, vessel or...

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