Coven Distributing Co. v. City of Chicago

These cases involve an automatic amusement machine known as the Bally Hook Bowler, hereafter called the Bowler. The controversy arises from the refusal of the City Collector of the City of Chicago to issue automatic amusement machine licenses for the use of the Bowler on the ground that the Bowler is a modern variety of bagatelle or pigeonhole commonly known as pin games and that it violates section 193-26 of the Municipal Code which reads :

“It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or use in any place of public resort within the city any tables or implements for any game of bagatelle or…