Thoman v. Grevemberg

SIMON, Justice.

On May 31, 1954, Emile J. Thoman filed this suit for a declaratory judgment to- have certain console model coin amusement machines declared free from seizure and destruction, their not being “slot machines” or gambling devices reprobated by law.

*531On November 4, 1953, 69 machines admittedly owned by plaintiff were confiscated from various places of storage in the Parish of St. Tammany by officers of the Louisiana State Police Department acting under order of the Superintendent of State Police, Francis C. Grevemberg, and stored in a warehouse in Covington, Louisiana, for…