Legal Opinion
Affiliated Enterprises, Inc. v. Gruber
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 18, 1936No. 3153PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court for Massachusetts dismissing the plaintiff’s bill of complaint on the ground that plaintiff’s plan or system for which it sought protection by injunction was a gambling transaction.
The bill set out that for advertising purposes plaintiff had devised and used a plan or system contemplating “the gratuitous award of a specified sum of money at stated periods to the persons who may then be designated in accordance with the terms and stipulations of the plan.” Under this plan any person above 17 years of age had the right…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- International News Service v. Associated PressSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Board of Trade of Chicago v. Christie Grain & Stock Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Harold Lloyd Corporation v. WitwerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1933
- Chadwick v. CovellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Yellow-Stone Kit v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Frank Morrissey v. The Procter & Gamble CompanyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1967
- State v. JonesNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1940
- Blazon, Inc. v. DeLuxe Game Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1965
- Dorsey v. Old Surety Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1938
- Affiliated Enterprises, Inc. v. WallerSuperior Court of Delaware · 1939
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