Love v. Harris
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 20. Ord. Pet. APPEAL FROM PULASKI CIRCUIT. Love bet Harris and Elliott a horse at $140 against their note for that sum, that Fillmore and Donelson would get the electoral vote of Kentucky for President and Yice President of the United States at the presidential election to come off in 1856. After the result of the election was known Love surrendered the horse to the appellees who sold and converted it to their own use and Love brought this suit to recover the value of…
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Case 20. Ord. Pet. APPEAL FROM PULASKI CIRCUIT. Love bet Harris and Elliott a horse at $140 against their note for that sum, that Fillmore and Donelson would get the electoral vote of Kentucky for President and Yice President of the United States at the presidential election to come off in 1856. After the result of the election was known Love surrendered the horse to the appellees who sold and converted it to their own use and Love brought this suit to recover the value of the horse of Harris and Elliott. The petition is good, stating every thing necessary in apt form. The defendants filed a…
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Duvall,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This aciion was brought by the appellant to recover the sum of one hundred and forty dollars, as the value of a horse which, as he alleges, was lost by him, and won by the appellees, in a bet or wager on the result of the vote of Kentucky in the last presidential election, which horse was received by the appellees, and by them converted to their own use.
A demurrer to the petition was sustained by the circuit court, and to reverse that judgment Love prosecutes this- appeal.
Whether the facts stated in the petition are sufficient to constitute a…
2Cited by1 opinion
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