Auxer v. Llewellyn

Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson

delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question presented for review is the propriety of the instruction to the jury to find for the defendant. Appellant by his own showing was ambitious to become a member of a class of confidence sharks. He willingly joined with Llewellyn, Taber and Haughn in an arrangement with Bennett that Bennett and Llewellyn should have a fake fight, in which appellee was to win, and the Bloomington sports, who had bet their money on Bennett, were to lose and Auxer who had nominally bet his money on Llewellyn on a sure thing was to…