Zellers v. White
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. H. M. Trimble, Judge, presiding. This is a suit in assumpsit, brought on December 3, 1901, by Lawrence White, against Jacob Zellers, in the circuit court of LaSalle county. The declaration consisted of the common counts, with a copy of the account sued on.
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Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. H. M. Trimble, Judge, presiding. This is a suit in assumpsit, brought on December 3, 1901, by Lawrence White, against Jacob Zellers, in the circuit court of LaSalle county. The declaration consisted of the common counts, with a copy of the account sued on. Before pleading to the declaration the defendant obtained a rule on the plaintiff to file a specific bill of particulars. This bill of particulars, when filed, showed the cause of action to be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
Section 132 of chapter 38 of Hurd’s Revised Statutes of 1901 reads 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, election or unknown or contingent event whatever, lose to any person, so playing or betting, any sum of money, or other valuable thing, amounting in the whole to the sum of $10, and shall pay or deliver the same or any part thereof, the person so losing and paying or…
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