Times Amusement Corp. v. Moss

The plaintiff is engaged in the business of conducting an amusement center. It there operates a number of machines, commonly known as pin ball or bagatelle games. These machines have each been separately licensed by the defendant, the commissioner of licenses of the city of New York, since October 3, 1932. Such licenses run from November first of each year to October thirty-first of the following year, and have been renewed annually. The present licenses will expire October 31, 1936. The defendant is now threatening to revoke them on the ground that the machines are illegal slot machines…