Legal Opinion
O. D. Jennings & Co. v. Maestri
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 28, 1938No. 8795PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
The suit was against the Mayor and the Superintendent of Police of the City of New Orleans for an injunction. The complaint was that thirty-five automatic candy venders, which plaintiff had manufactured and consigned to itself in New Orleans, had been seized and confiscated by the defendants as gambling devices under the purported authority of Act No. 231 of 1928;1 that they were threatening to continue to seize any candy venders found operating or stored in New Orleans, thus preventing plaintiff from carrying on its business, and thereby depriving it of its property…
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