Marvin v. Sloan

The defendants, respectively the county attorney and sheriff of Carbon county, had threatened to confiscate certain machines operated by the plaintiff and to arrest him for their operation. In order to prevent such actions on the part of the defendants, the plaintiff brought this action seeking an injunction against them. After trial upon an agreed statement of facts the court entered judgment for plaintiff, granting an injunction. The defendants have appealed.

The record discloses that the machine in question is an automatic vending device used for the sale of packages of a certain kind of…