Ashcraft v. Healey

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a hill seeking an injunction to prevent the superintendent of police o-f New Orleans from repeatedly arresting plaintiff in error, plaintiff below, for alleged violations of a state statute which prohibits the use of slot machines as gambling devices. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the District Court.

The hill substantially alleges as follows: Plaintiff owns a number of automatic mint-vending machines, which are placed in various commercial establishments on a profit-sharing basis. Assuming that the said…