Title Guarantee & Trust Co. v. United States

Appeal in an abatement ease under.the National Prohibition Act, attacking a decree of the District Court closing the premises for the period of one year.

The facts are undisputed. From the agreed statement presented under Equity Rule 77 (28 USCA § 723), it appears that the premises sought to be enjoined were used as a restaurant known as Tony’s Café, and operated by the respondent Tony Panzieh at 901-905 East First street, Los Angeles, Cal., that the respondents John Arkovieh, Otto Meyers, and George Gereh were employees of said Tony Panzieh at said café, and that the respondent and appellant, Title Guarantee & Trust Company, a corporation, was the owner of the real property and building upon and in which the café was situated, as trustee under a deed of trust.

It is admitted that liquor was sold in violation of law on said premises on six specific dates; that on numerous other dates the proprietor of said premises kept, bartered, and sold on said premises for beverage purposes different quantities of intoxicating liquors, and that the said respondents and their employees in the regular course of their unlawful business solicit, take, and accept or *545 ders for the sale of…