Court Opinion

ID: 9680550
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 07:33:33.91745+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:29.211132
License: Public Domain

POPE, Justice
(dissenting).
In my opinion, the scheme is a lottery. Someone must pay for everyone who plays. Someone must pay for each bingo card. Each of some fifty service station dealers pays from $167.00 to $300.00 as an original price, and from $10.00 to $15.00 a week thereafter. Unless the dealers pay, they get no cards to distribute for the “free” games. When they quit paying, they cease getting cards. The television station receives $190.00 a day to stage the game. The promoter receives $1,087 each week. The truth is that this scheme was operated upon a plan that obscures but does not destroy the fact that nobody plays until somebody pays. If, in a bingo parlor each person paid for the person who sat next to him, one might argue plausibly that nobody paid for his own game. I would grant the injunction.