300 Pin Ball, Slot or Marble Machines v. State ex rel. Mills

This is an appeal from orders of confiscation made in three causes of action filed in the District Court of Bryan County which were consolidated.

The appellants owned 300 pin ball machines which were located in the State of Texas and most of them in operation there. The laws of the State of Texas did not prohibit the operation of such machines but the effective date of an act of the legislature of the State of Texas was about at hand and it was deemed necessary in order to prevent confiscation of these machines in- the State of Texas to take them out of that state. The machines were brought in…