Shankland v. Corporation of Washington

This case is fully stated in the following opinion of the Court, given by Cranch, C. J., (Thruston, J., not sitting in the cause.)

This is an action of assumpsit for money had and received, to recover one half of the amount of the prize of f25,000, drawn by ticket No. 5591 in the 5th class of the Washington lottery. The plaintiff produced the same evidence which was produced in the case of Clark v. The Corporation of Washington, 12 Wheaton, 40, except the ticket which drew the prize; which ticket in the present case, namely, No. 5591, was, after the drawing, given up to the managers as a…