State Ex Rel. Regez v. Blumer

The district attorney of Green county, on leave of the court first granted, brings this action to abate as a public nuisance, on the ground that it constitutes a lottery, a practice of the defendant described in the complaint substantially as follows: The defendant operates a drugstore in the city of Monroe. Pie canvassed the city and procured the names of several thousand citizens who by their consent became registrants for participation in a scheme designated by defendant as the “Multiple Dividend Plan.” Each registrant wrote his name on an individual card containing his address which was…