Fairmount Engine Co. v. Montgomery County

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

It is admitted in the pleadings in this case that the plaintiff fire comjiany, appellant herein, through its officers, was conducting an illegal public lottery in its engine house at Main and Astor Streets, Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on the evening of August 17, 1935. It is also undisputed that on the same evening a detail of state police stopped the lottery, confiscated certain gambling paraphernalia, arrested the president of the fire company along with a member of the house committee, broke open a safe in the basement of the fire house, seized the…