Murfreesboro Bank & Trust Co. v. Travis

This cause arose out of a gambling transaction involving $3,850, the proceeds of a check drawn on complainant Bank and cashed by it. The suit is for the recovery of this money. The Chancellor overruled a demurrer to the bill and this appeal resulted.

For some time preceding the date of the check, August 31,1948, defendants Travis and Jones were partners and carried on numerous gaming and gambling transactions in a storehouse just off the Public Square in Murfrees-boro.

The bill charges that on August 31, 1948, one S. D. Fuston made several bets with defendants on several day and night baseball…