Doyle v. Commissioners of Baltimore County
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Baltimore county court. This was an action of debt to recover the sum of $200, brought by the appellees on the 9th April, 1841, who declared, that whereas, on the 1st day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and forty, at the county aforesaid, a certain William Doebaker, and a certain John Crandall, did bet and wager each the sum of one hundred dollars, upon the result of the election of Electors of President and Vice President of the United Slates, in the…
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Appeal from Baltimore county court. This was an action of debt to recover the sum of $200, brought by the appellees on the 9th April, 1841, who declared, that whereas, on the 1st day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and forty, at the county aforesaid, a certain William Doebaker, and a certain John Crandall, did bet and wager each the sum of one hundred dollars, upon the result of the election of Electors of President and Vice President of the United Slates, in the State of Pennsylvania, to take place on the thirtieth day of October, in the year aforesaid. And whereas, the said parties…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, J.
By the third section of the act of 1838, chap. 392, every deposite of money as a wager or bet upon elections, is forfeited, and to be paid over to the levy courts or county commissioners of the county. The forfeiture attaches to the deposite the moment it is made. For this, see Gelston vs. Hoyt, 3 Wheat. 311, and the authorities there referred to. This being the public law of the land, a knowledge of it is imputed jo every person in whose hands such a deposite is made. No notice or warning therefore, is necessary to prevent the payment of the deposite to the parties to the bet. If such…
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