ALBERT LEA AMUSEMENT CORP. v. HANSON

No. 35,116.

231 Minn. 401 (1950)

ALBERT LEA AMUSEMENT CORPORATION v. RUDOLPH HANSON AND ANOTHER.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 23, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meighen, Knudson, Sturtz & Peterson, Samuel P. Halpern, and James E.M. Gottlieb, for appellant.

J.A.A. Burnquist, Attorney General, Lowell J. Grady, Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth W. Green, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Rudolph Hanson, County Attorney, for respondents.


THOMAS GALLAGHER, JUSTICE.

Plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment construing M.S.A. 614.01, which provides:

"A lottery is a scheme for the distribution of property by chance among persons who have paid, or agreed to pay, a valuable consideration for the chance, whether it shall be called a lottery, raffle, gift enterprise, or by any other name, and is hereby declared unlawful and a public nuisance.

"Every...

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