McCaddon

This is an action brought to abate a nuisance under the Red-light Abatement Act (Stats. 1913, p. 20).

It is alleged in the complaint that defendant Joseph Ingersoll was the owner, and the reputed owner, of the premises known and described as the Chambers Hotel, in the city and county of San Bernardino; that the defendant Mrs. F. McCaddon “was and now is” in possession of the said premises; that divers acts of lewdness, assignation, and prostitution “now occur and continuously since the twenty-seventh day of September, 1917, have occurred, and now are and during all of said times have been committed in said building ... by divers persons unknown to plaintiff”; that said premises were by the defendant Mrs. F. McCaddon used “for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, and prostitution”; that the defendant Joseph Ingersoll had the means of knowing the alleged acts occurring and permitted in said building; and that the acts alleged constitute and are a nuisance, because whereof the said building—Chambers Hotel—“is a nuisance, being knowingly maintained as such.” It further■ appears from the complaint that certain furniture and fixtures owned by the defendant Jane Doe Cassidy were,…