Collins v. Merrell
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 34 — APPEAL FROM GRANT CIRCUIT COURT. cited 10 B. Mon., 143. cited 3 Littcll, 290; 15 B. Mon., 140; 6 Dana, 91-2; 3 Bibb, 500; Rev. Statutes, sec. 1, chap. 42, page 367.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Simpson
The fact that part of the four hundred dollars, for which the note sued on was executed, was for money lent for the purpose of gaming, is fully established by the testimony, and, indeed, does not seem to be controverted. The extent to which the validity of the note is thereby affected, is the question presented for our consideration.
By the first section of the chapter on Gaming, (Revised Statutes, page 367,) it is enacted, that “ every contract, conveyance, transfer, or assurance for the consideration, in whole or in part, ot money, property, or other thing won, lost, or bet at any game, *164sport…
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