Lee v. City of Birmingham

The bill in equity was filed by the city of Birmingham to condemn as contraband certain slot machines alleged to be gambling devices seized by the police department of the city under authority of its ordinances, and for the recovery of which the respondents bad begun separate actions at law. The bill alleges that they were kept or operated in violation of Ordinance No. 1104-C of the city of Birmingham. The particular description of the machines is somewhat conthsed, and does not correspond in sonic detail with that set out in the ordinance, but they are alleged to be machines operated as…