State Ex Rel. Replogle v. Joyland Club

THE HONORABLE C. E. COMER, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE BOTTOMLY, disqualified:

This is an appeal from a decree of the district court of Fergus comity, the Hon. C.F. Holt, district judge presiding, ordering the confiscation of five coin-operated slot machines loaded with money and abating, as a nuisance, the premises on which the machines were being operated.

The premises consist of a parcel of land with a one-story frame building thereon owned by the defendants W. S. Shepherd and Ann LaMere, and situate near the outskirts of the city of Lewistown, in Fergus county, Montana.

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