McCarville v. Ream

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Hotel Fort Des Moines. The 'date was the night of March 20-31, 1947, and the occasion was the annual convention of the Iowa Automobile Dealers’ Association. The. “boys” were members of the Association and assorted friends, and this lawsuit grows out of what may be described as some of their extra-curricular activities which were probably not on the official agenda of the convention; in short, gambling games played with dice. As one witness described the scene: “The dice game took place in one of the large rooms at Hotel Fort Des Moines. In fact,…