Whitwell v. Carter
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Jackson Circuit. This was an action for money had and received, tried in the Jackson Circuit before a jury, and comes here on bill of exceptions.
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Error to Jackson Circuit. This was an action for money had and received, tried in the Jackson Circuit before a jury, and comes here on bill of exceptions. The plaintiff; Carter, proved substantially, that in May, 1855, one Yaughn, as agent for him, made a bet with D. B. Hibbard of $200 cash, and deposited the money with the defendant below, Whitwell, as stakeholder, on the following conditions: Hibbard bet that he, or some one to be employed by him, could trot a pair of his stage horses from the American Hotel, in Jackson, to the hotel in the village of Manchester, in one hour and forty-five…
1Opinion of the Court
*331By the Court,
Douglass, J.
The statute makes the running, trotting and pacing of horses a misdemeanor, and all persons concerned therein punishable by fine and imprisonment (Rev. Stat., Ch. 40, § 1); and also provides, that the owner of a horse, used by his permission or privity, in racing contrary to law, shall forfeit the value of the horse; and every person laying a bet or wager upon the event of an illegal race, shall forfeit the amount of the bet or wager so made, (Ib., § 4.)
The bet between the parties-in this case was, therefore, criminal and illegal.
We do not think it necessary to decide…
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