Martin v. Wheatley

JOHN E. MILLER, District Judge.

On July 6, 1945, the plaintiff, Ora C. Martin, a resident and citizen of Florida, filed in this court her complaint, seeking to recover a judgment against defendant, Erb O. Wheatley, a resident and citizen of Arkansas, in the sum of $4300, and alleged that the said sum is the net amount of her losses in games of chance conducted by the defendant at a “common gambling house” owned and operated by the said defendant in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The complaint is based upon Section 6112 of Pope’s Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas. 1

Summons was issued on…