Gaby v. Hankins
Appellate Court of Illinois
Bill to Subject Property Used for Gambling Purposes to the Payment óf a Judgment.—Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery County; the Hon. Samuel L. Dwight, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harker
The plaintiff in error presented to the Circuit Court a bill in equity, charging that the defendant in error leased certain real estate, which she owned in the city of Litchfield, to one F. M. Lloyd, who sublet it to John M. Smith, William Stout and George Felkel, to be used as a gambling house; that in the spring of 1892 John H. Gaby, the husband of plaintiff in error, lost $1,628 in the house; that she subsequently brought suit against Smith, Stout, and Felkel under Section 132, Chapter 38 of the Revised Statutes, to recover treble the value of the money so lost, one-half to her use and…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Castle v. FogertyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1886
- Bell v. CassemIllinois Supreme Court · 1895
- Bell v. CassemAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894