White v. Washington's ex'or
Supreme Court of Virginia
This was an injunction to a judgment at law. The bill was filed in January 1843, by William Washington against William L. White, and charged that the judgment was for the sum of 500 dollars, which White had won from the plaintiff at cards; and that the judgment was recovered on the evidence of John B. Hill, who proved the promise of the plaintiff to pay the money, but who did not hear the consideration of the promise, or pretended that he did not.
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This was an injunction to a judgment at law. The bill was filed in January 1843, by William Washington against William L. White, and charged that the judgment was for the sum of 500 dollars, which White had won from the plaintiff at cards; and that the judgment was recovered on the evidence of John B. Hill, who proved the promise of the plaintiff to pay the money, but who did not hear the consideration of the promise, or pretended that he did not. And he called upon White to discover whether the promise on which the judgment was founded, was not for money won at cards. In November 1844,…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The bill and amended bill in this case may be treated as one, and the demurrers thereto must be regarded as conceding that the consideration of the promise on which the judgment at law was recovered, was money lost at unlawful gaming — that the merits of the cause were not developed on the trial at law, by reason of the extraordinary circumstance that the only witness before the jury, examined by the plaintiff and relied on by the defendant, and who was present at the gaming, and proved the promise then made to the plain*647tiff to pay him 500 dollars, failed to prove the consideration of the…
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