Davis v. Caldwell

The plaintiff sues the defendants for a remuneration for services rendered by him in aid of their project to draw a lottery in 1839 ; and the defendants are appellants from a judgment condemning them to pay a small sum. We stopped the counsel for the plaintiff and appellee in his argument, and called his attention to the fact that lotteries were prohibited at that time by legislative authority, and that there could be no valid contract in relation to the drawing, or preparation to draw any lottery whatever, whereupon, the case was submitted without further argument. Upon looking at the points…