Houghton v. Fox

WALTHALL, Justice.

D. E. Houghton, as plaintiff, brought this suit against Chris P. Fox, as sheriff of El Paso county, and L. T. Robey, as chief of .police of the city of El Paso, as defendants, to enjoin each of them from seizing, taking, or threaténing to take into thei'r possession and from interfering with plaintiff in his possession of certain machines called “marble machines” which were so constructed that when operated the player received nothing, or varying amounts of money, depending on the operation of said machine.

Ploughton is the owner of the machines. The marble machines are more…