Opinion
No. 32519
Decided March 14, 1951.
Supreme Court — Dismissal — No debatable constitutional question involved — Gambling — Action by taxpayer to enjoin licensing of lotteries — Cleveland ordinance licensing lotteries for charitable purpose unconstitutional — Section 6, Article XV, Constitution, self-executing — Bingo — Less than 3 per cent of gross receipts given to charitable beneficiaries — City not deprived of regulatory powers, when — Local self-government — Section 3, Article XVIII, Constitution.
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga county.
Mr. Myron D. Malitz and Mr. William J. Kraus, for appellee.
Mr. Lee C. Howley, director of law, and Mr. Robert J. Selzer, for appellants.
It is ordered and adjudged that this appeal as of right be, and the same hereby is, dismissed for the reason that no debatable constitutional question is involved.
Appeal dismissed.
WEYGANDT, C.J., ZIMMERMAN, STEWART, MIDDLETON, TAFT, MATTHIAS and HART, JJ., concur.