R. E. Pratt & Co. v. Ashmore
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ OE Error to the Circuit Court of Macon county; ■the Hon. Soron Phirbrick, Judge, presiding. On December 20, 1903, the defendant in error, George M. Ashmore, filed his bill in the circuit court of Macon county, which was afterwards amended, against plaintiffs in error, alleging that he was the owner in fee of certain real estate situated in the city of Decatur; that the defendant Frank M..
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Writ OE Error to the Circuit Court of Macon county; ■the Hon. Soron Phirbrick, Judge, presiding. On December 20, 1903, the defendant in error, George M. Ashmore, filed his bill in the circuit court of Macon county, which was afterwards amended, against plaintiffs in error, alleging that he was the owner in fee of certain real estate situated in the city of Decatur; that the defendant Frank M.. Pratt resided in said city and the defendant Ralph E. Pratt resided in the city of Chicago; that during the period of the transactions in the bill set forth, said parties, Frank M. and Ralph E. Pratt,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
Counsel for plaintiffs in error do not seek to have the decree of the court below reversed for errors of law, but admit that the, case is one of fact. The question for our determination is whether the transactions between the parties, as set up in the bill, were gambling transactions within the meaning of section 130 of chapter 38 of our statutes, (Hurd’s Stat. 1905, pp. 698, 699,)' and whether, if void, the complainant was entitled to the relief prayed under sections 131 and 132 of the same chapter.
Section 130 provides that whoever contracts to have or give to himself or another the option…
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