State v. Edward Falgren

This is a proceeding to abate a nuisance consisting in the keeping of gambling devices on the premises occupied by the defendant in East Grand Forks and keeping therein for sale intoxicating liquors. We need refer only to the gambling devices. The complaint asks that certain slot machines, used for gambling purposes, be condemned and destroyed. The trial resulted in findings condemning the slot machines as gambling devices, enjoining their use, adjudging their destruction so that they could not be used for gambling purposes, and the payment of the proceeds of the sale of the destroyed…