Braddock v. Family Finance Corporation

Today this Court overturns the decision of the district court which found that chain referral sales schemes are illegal lotteries. That decision of the lower court was consistent with the unanimous suggestion of this Court in Nab v. Hills, 92 Idaho 877, 452 P.2d 981 (1969). Based on a profusion of authorities from all across the country we said in Nab:

“Before we discuss the assignments of .error, we must observe that the type of sales referral scheme which appellant attempted to prove at trial has been held by a number of jurisdictions to constitute an illegal lottery. Such 'illegal…