Holmes v. Brickey

The plaintiff.on July 5, 1947, filed his complaint against the defendant in the circuit court of McLean county to recover $700 which he claims he paid to the defendant for money lost at dice in a gambling house operated by this defendant. The action was brought under par. 330, ch. 38, Ill. Rev. Stat. 1947 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 37.260], which is as follows:

“Any person who shall, at any time or sitting, by playing at cards, dice or any other game or games, or by betting on the side or hands of such as do game, or by any wager or bet upon any race, fight, pastime, sport, lot, chance, casualty,…