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- Title
GAMING--POSSIBILITY OF RECOVERING MONEY LOST.
- Authors
Bertrand, Bernard H.; Burton, Bryant
- Abstract
The article focuses on a case about the possibility of recovering money lost in gaming. While playing cards aboard a steamship on way from New York City to San Francisco, California, a man lost $36,620 to a professional gambler. When they arrived in San Francisco he wrote a check for the amount of the debt payable on the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Illinois. The check having been paid in Illinois the plaintiff sought to recover the payment upon the interpretation of an Illinois gambling statute, which provides that any person who shall in a game of chance lose money or goods exceeding in value ten dollars, and having paid it to the winner, can recover the same or its full value by an action at law. However, if the loser does not within six months sue for the recovery of the money, it shall be lawful for any person to sue for, and recover treble the value of the money, goods, chattels and other things; one half to the use of the county, and the other to the person suing.
- Subjects
CHICAGO (Ill.); ILLINOIS; GAMBLING; CARD games; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); CONTINENTAL Illinois National Bank &; Trust Co.
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731), 1938, Vol 28, Issue 6, p912
- ISSN
0885-2731
- Publication type
Article