Parker v. Claypool

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Hinds County, Mississippi, wherein the trial judge peremptorily instructed the jury to eliminate from the promissory note sued on the sum of $6,000, together with interest and 10% attorney’s fee thereon, on the ground that to this extent the note represented losses by the appellee in a gambling transaction under the circumstances hereinafter related.

At a date in 1946 not shown in the record before us in the above styled cause, the appellee J. B. Claypool was in Shreveport, Louisiana, one evening and desired to play the game of poker…