Crocker First Federal Trust Co. v. United States

This is an action under the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA), to abate as a nuisance the premises known as Hotel Golden, San Francisco. The appellants, Crocker First Federal Trust Company and George Sutton, are, respectively, the owner and lessee of the premises. It is alleged in the complaint that the premises were being used and maintained as a place where intoxicating liquor was habitually and recurrently manufactured, sold, bartered, stored, and kept in violation of the National Prohibition Act, and that the premises were publie, and a common nuisance. The decree of the court found that the allegations of the complaint were true, that the hotel was a common nuisance, as defined in section 21, title 2 of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA § 33), required that the nuisance should be abated by closing the hotel for one year, and provided that the premises should, however, be occupied by the owner upon furnishing a bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned as specified in section 22, tit. 2, of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA § 34), and that as a condition of reopening the premises under bond the tenants should be approved by the court. As to appellant Sutton, it was…