102 Iowa 105 | Iowa | 1897
This case presents the question whether, after an injunction has been issued restraining one from continuing a liquor nuisance, and after proceedings thereunder have been commenced against him for contempt for violating said injunction, which proceedings are still pending and undisposed of, another citizen of the county may maintain another suit against the same and .other persons as defendants for a like offense committed in and upon the same premises, and obtain another injunction. It was held in Dickinson v. Eichorn, 78 Iowa, 710 (43 N. W. Rep. 620), that a decree for an injunction and the abatement of such a nuisance obtained by one citizen of a county, although not enforced, was a bar to a second suit for the same purpose by another citizen for the abatement of the same nuisance, in the absence of a showing that the former decree was obtained by collusion, with the intent to use it to defeat the purposes of the law. So far at least as the defendant Emil Rosenthal is concerned, that case seems to us decisive of this appeal.
It appears that in November, 1891, at the suit of one Camerop., Emil Rosenthal was perpetually enjoined from maintaining the same kind of a nuisance at the same place; that in January, 1895, said Cameron instituted proceedings against Emil Rosenthal for a violation of said injunction, which proceedings are still pending and undetermined. There is nothing in this record to show why this contempt case has not been
As to the defendant Bertha Rosenthal, there is no evidence showing that she was in any way concerned in running or operating the saloon, an<J no reason appears why she should have been made a party defendant. As to McCauley, he appears to have been a bartender for the defendant Emil Rosenthal, and as such was his agent, and is clearly embraced within the decree rendered in the original case in which an injunction was rendered, Silvers v. Traverse, 82 Iowa,
We think the reasoning of the Dickinson Case is conclusive as to the questions here presented, and we need not further consider them. The decree of the district court is affirmed.