Oatman v. Port Huron Chief of Police

Plaintiff and appellant filed this bill to enjoin the chief of police of the city of Port Huron from interfering with the operation of plaintiff’s pin-ball machines, and the sheriff of St. Clair county intervened. Plaintiff has about 60 pin-ball machines in operation in public places in and near Port Huron. The person playing the machine deposits a five-cent coin which causes a lever to drop, a ball is propelled up a slight slope and its progress down again is interrupted by pins or bumpers, different lights and gadgets are lighted up and the downward course of the ball, which is entirely by…