Garrison v. McGregor

This was an action commenced before a justice of the peace of Peoria county and taken by appeal to the circuit court, wherein the appellee, McGregor, recovered a judgment against Lewis Garrison and Benjamin Garrison, of two hundred dollars, being money which the plaintiff had lost on a horse race, and paid over to them by the stakeholder, one Camp.

To reverse the judgment, the defendants take this appeal.

There is no question on the evidence that the plaintiff placed in the hands of Camp two hundred dollars, and the defendants an equal sum, the whole to belong to the owner of the winning horse.…