Court Opinion

ID: 9624004
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:48:38.922341+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:53:28.532118
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE FREEBOURN
(dissenting) :
The state of Montana, under authority of Chapter 142, Session Laws of Montana of 1945, having received the necessary license fee, issued a license permitting and authorizing the possession of such slot machines.
The possession of such slot machines cannot be unlawful or constitute a nuisance since section 57-104, R. C. M. 1947, sec. 8645, R. C. M. 1935, provides: “Nothing which is done or maintained under the express authority of a statute can be deemed a nuisance.”
This is also the general law. See 46 C. J., Nuisances, sec. 40, p. 672, and 39 Am. Jur., Nuisances, sec. 204, p. 480.