Jerome Park Co. v. Board of Police

The plaintiffs in this action seek an injunction to restrain the defendants from interfering with the business of book-making upon the plaintiffs’ premises, which are used as a race-course.

The plaintiffs in their complaint allege that among other kinds of business, the exclusive right during such meeting to prosecute the business of book-making, as it is called, on said premises, has heretofore and during all of the said meetings in the years 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1881 been sold to various iiarties, and has in each year realized a very large sum of money, and during said years the business…