Barbiere

This action was instituted against the respondents under what is commonly known as the “Redlight Abate ment Law,” passed by the legislature of 1913, and entitled, “An act declaring all buildings and places nuisances wherein or upon which acts of lewdness, assignation or prostitution are held or occur or which are used for such purposes, and providing for the abatement and prevention of such nuisances by injunction and otherwise.” (Stats. 1913, pp. 20-22.)

It is alleged in the petition that the respondents, Andre Barbiere and Ernestine Moreau, are the owners, respectively, and in severalty, of two pieces of real property, upon which there stand two separate buildings, the one adjoining the ether, situated in the block bounded by L and M and Second and Third Streets, in the city of Sacramento. It is charged that the respondent, Moreau, had, previously to the institution of this proceeding, leased to one of the fictitiously named respondents, whose true name the evidence at the trial disclosed to be Pugne Maddalena, for the term of one year, commencing January 1, 1915, the building owned by her and above referred to, together with the furniture therein contained, it being expressly…