ACF WRIGLEY STORES, INC. v. WAYNE PROS. ATTY.

Docket No. 73, Calendar No. 48,208.

359 Mich. 215 (1960)

102 N.W.2d 545

ACF WRIGLEY STORES, INC., v. WAYNE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 11, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irwin I. Cohn (Avern Cohn and John Sklar, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Arthur J. Koscinski, Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, and William P. Long, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for defendant.


KELLY, J.

This is an appeal from a Wayne county circuit court finding that a television program known as "Play Marko" was not a lottery.

The successive Michigan Constitutions (Const 1835, art 12, § 6; Const 1850, art 4, § 27; Const 1908, art 5, § 33) have, in language materially unchanged from the original phraseology, prohibited legislative authorization of lotteries by providing that: "The legislature...

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