State Ex Inf. McKittrick v. Globe-Democrat

ELLISON, J..

Quo warranto instituted in this court by the Attorney General to forfeit the charter of the respondent Globe-Democrat Publishing Company, a corporation, on the ground that at and prior to the filing of the information it was operating a lottery. The respondent publishes the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a daily and Sunday newspaper. The alleged lottery, conducted by and advertised in that newspaper, was called the “Famous Names” contest. The respondent filed a return admitting it had conducted the contest bilt denying that the same was a lottery. To that return the relator filed a…