Rouse v. Sisson

Appellee has invented, and has letters patent pending for, an electric coin-operated machine,’ generally referred to as an I. Q. or intelligence quotient machine. He was about to install one of them in the County of Stone,, but was notified by appellant, the Sheriff of the County, that appellant considered the machine a gambling device and that it would be seized and confiscated. Appellee thereupon brought this suit for injunction, which, on the hearing, was sustained by the court, and the sheriff has appealed.

Each of these machines is stocked with printed questions, about 3,000 questions to…