Griffith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “We are of the opinion that the objection urged to that portion of the judgment below authorizing the closing of the premises until further orders of the court constitutes error on an ex parte hearing. Article 4666 provides that suit shall be instituted for the purpose of abating the nuisance, and we are of the opinion that it was contemplated by the Legislature, and so specifically provided, that only after such civil suit had been instituted, and a hearing had on the merits, after due service of citation, that such an order was permissible.... [w]e think that the court did not have authority to close the premises by writ of temporary injunction “until the further orders of the court” without a hearing on the merits. As we construe the article of the statute above quoted, clearly it provides that if judgment be in favor of the state, evidently on final hearing, then judgment should be rendered for plaintiff abating said nuisance and enjoining the defendant from maintaining the same, and ordering that said house be closed for one year from the date of said judgment. Id. at 379 . (Emphasis added).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Deblo, Inc. v. State

2. “But we think that the court did not have the authority to close the premises by writ of temporary injunction “until the further orders of the court” without a hearing on the merits. As we construe the article of the statute above quoted, clearly it provides that if judgment be in favor of the state, evidently on final hearing, then judgment should be rendered for plaintiff abating said nuisance and enjoining the defendant from maintaining the same, and ordering that said house be closed for one year from the date of said judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Stone Fox v. State