Peterson

The district attorney óf San Bernardino County instituted this action against Mrs. J. A. Peterson, lessee of the Monte Vista hotel and rooming-house and R. F. Drew and the Andreson Company, owners of the building, charging the defendant, Mrs. Peterson, with committing a nuisance in said building in violation of the provisions of the “Redlight Abatement Act.” (Stats. 1913, p. 20.) The owners of the building appeared separately from the other defendants, and interposed a demurrer to the complaint, which was overruled. They thereupon answered, admitting ownership of the building, but substantially denying every other allegation of the complaint, especially in so far as the existence of any nuisance was concerned. At the proper time Drew and the Andreson Company demanded, that the cause be tried by a jury, which was refused. '

By the judgment, the trial court found that the acts" complained of constituted a nuisance, perpetually enjoined all the defendants from permitting the same to continue, ordered the third story of the building closed for one year, and the furnishings therein sold, unless released by the owners giving bond in the sum of five thousand dollars. Costs were awarded…