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COVEN DISTRIBUTING CO., INC. v. CHICAGO

Gen. Nos. 45,469, 45,470.

346 Ill. App. 448 (1952)

105 N.E.2d 137

Coven Distributing Company, Inc., Appellee, v. City of Chicago et al., Appellants. People of State of Illinois ex rel. Sidney Kromer, Trading as Broadway Amusement Company, Appellee, v. City of Chicago et al., Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied and modified opinion filed April 16, 1952.

Released for publication April 16, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JOHN J. MORTIMER, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago for appellants; L. LOUIS KARTON, Head of Appeals and Review Division, and HARRY H. POLLACK, Assistant Corporation Counsel, both of Chicago, of counsel.

JOSEPH WILLIAM BERNSTEIN, of Chicago, for appellees; ODE L. RANKIN, of Chicago, of counsel.

MR. JUSTICE LEWE delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases involve an automatic amusement machine known as the Bally Hook Bowler, hereafter called the Bowler. The controversy arises from the refusal of the City Collector of the City of Chicago to issue automatic amusement machine licenses for the use of the Bowler on the ground that the Bowler is a modern variety of bagatelle or pigeonhole commonly known as pin...

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