EADS v. J & J SALES CORPORATION

No. 1069A184.

269 N.E.2d 888 (1971)

Lee EADS, Sheriff of Marion County, et al., Defendants-Appellants, v. J & J SALES CORPORATION, an Indiana Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Indiana, Division No. 1.

May 27, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen., William F. Thompson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mark Peden, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for defendants-appellants.

Arthur J. Sullivan, David F. McNamar, Steers, Klee, Jay & Sullivan, Indianapolis, for plaintiff-appellee.


SULLIVAN, Presiding Justice.

In this class action a permanent injunction preventing various law enforcement agencies from seizing appellee's pinball machines, among others, as gambling devices is challenged on appeal as being contrary to the anti-gambling statute of Indiana.

The plaintiff-appellee's complaint stated that the plaintiff was engaged in the business of leasing amusement-type pinball machines; that it derived $15-30 a week from the operation of...

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