Commonwealth v. City of Frankfort

The Commonwealth instituted this action against various defendants, and complains, among other things, that Simmons & Dickinson claim the right to use and enjoy certain privileges, and to draw certain classes of a scheme or schemes devised, or purporting to have been devised, under the grant of a lottery privilege to Edward H. Taylor and others, as managers, for the benefit of the city schools, and for the construction of the water-works, reservoirs, etc., of the city of Frankfort, and that said defendants are yearly, and possibly much oftener, selling chances and tickets in drawings, and…