State Ex Inf. Danforth v. Reader's Digest Ass'n

MORGAN, Judge.

The Attorney General of Missouri filed, in the trial court, an information in the nature of quo warranto wherein it was alleged that The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., was conducting a promotion for the sale of magazines and various items of merchandise in violation of the lottery laws and public policy of the state of Missouri — Article III, § 39(9) of the 1945 Missouri Constitution and §§ 563.430 and 563.440, RSMo 1969 — and therein prayed that respondent “be ousted and excluded from exercising all privileges and rights granted it as a foreign corporation transacting…