Killian v. Craft

PONDER, Justice.

The plaintiffs, claiming to be and admittedly owners of 313 slot machines, seized by the Sheriff of Vernon Parish with the intention of destroying them, seek to be decreed the owners of the machines and seek injunctive relief to prevent the sheriff from destroying them.

At the time the sheriff seized the slot machines they were stored in a warehouse in the Town of Leesville, Vernon Parish, having been in storage for two years or more awaiting the permission of the authorities to ship them to the State of Nevada. They were not being operated as gambling devices or otherwise in…