Purpresture

A purpresture may be defined as an inclosure by a private party of a part of that which belongs to and ought to be open and free to the enjoyment of the publlc at large. It is not necessarlly a public nuisance. A public nuisance must be something which subjects the publlc to some degree of inconvenience or annoyance; but a purpresture may exist without putting the public to any inconvenience whatever.

Attorney General v. Evart Booming Co.., 34 Mich. 462. And see Co.bb v. Lincoln Park Co.m'rs, 202 III. 427, 67 N. E. 5, 63 L. R. A. 264, 95 Am. St. Rep. 258; Columbus v. Jaques, 30 Ga. 506; Sullivan v. Moreno, 19 Fla. 228; U. S. v. Debs (C. Ct) 64 Fed. 740; Drake v. Hudson River R. Co., 7 Barb. <N. Y.) 548.