Petit v. Bouju

The plaintiff in error brought his action of trover in the Circuit Court for one hundred dollars in money, it being the amount of a prize drawn by him in a lottery, of which the defendant was proprietor; and on the trial proved, and gave in evidence the scheme of a lottery proposed by the defendant, and that said lottery was drawn under the superintendence of managers, appointed by the defendant, pursuant to notice given by him, and that the plaintiff was the owner and holder of a ticket, which, at the drawing, agreeably to the scheme and the terms of the lottery, entitled him to a prize of…