State ex rel. Dawson v. Anthony Fair Ass'n

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

The state, on the relation of the attorney-general, brings this action to oust the Anthony Fair Association from its exercise of the right to acquiesce in *239and authorize pool selling and bookmaking. The charge is that the defendant was chartered “To give County Fairs annually also race meetings at Anthony, Kansas, buy and own and hold real estate and personalty necessary for such purposes, and do such [each] and every lawful thing necessary for the proper carrying out of said purposes”; that the defendant, in the month of August of each year…