Cooper v. Rowley
Ohio Supreme Court
Motion for leave to file a petition in error to the District Court of Knox county. The original action was brought in the court of common pleas by the plaintiff against the defendant, May 20, 1872, upon a petition in the following words and figures : “ The plaintiff, Charles Cooper, says the said defendant, Jerome Rowley, is justly indebted to him in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500), with interest thereon from the 15th day of October, 1868, for money won by said…
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Motion for leave to file a petition in error to the District Court of Knox county. The original action was brought in the court of common pleas by the plaintiff against the defendant, May 20, 1872, upon a petition in the following words and figures : “ The plaintiff, Charles Cooper, says the said defendant, Jerome Rowley, is justly indebted to him in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500), with interest thereon from the 15th day of October, 1868, for money won by said defendant from said plaintiff, and by said plaintiff paid to ■said defendant on or about said 15th day of October, 1868,…
1Opinion of the CourtBoynton, J.
The plaintiff’s action to recover the money-lost and paid over upon the bet or wager, was not brought for upward of three years and a half from the time of its loss and delivery. The court below held the action barred by the statute of limitations. The correctness of this holding is the only question presented by the record. The first section of the act for the prevention of gaming (1 S. & C. 664) among other things, declares, that all promises and agreements, the consideration of which, in whole or in part, is money, or other valuable thing, won or lost upon any game, or on any wager, shall…
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