Robb & Rowley United, Inc. v. State

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted in the name of the State of Texas by Lynn B. Griffith, the criminal district attorney of Ellis county, against Robb & Rowley United, Inc., and D. P. Callahan, its local manager, to restrain them from operating an alleged lottery. A hearing was held and the injunction prayed for was granted. Appellants, who were defendants in the court below, were engaged in operating moving picture theatres in Waxahachie, Texas. In connection therewith they operated once a week or oftener a scheme by which a certain sum in cash was awarded to someone who had…