Goodwill Advertising Co. v. Elmwood Amusement Corp.

This action in assumpsit was tried before a justice of the superior court sitting with a jury. After completion of the testimony by both parties the trial justice granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict on the ground that the contract between the plaintiff and the defendant was in violation of the lottery laws of Rhode Island and therefore null, void and unenforceable. The case is before us on the plaintiff’s single exception to the granting of such motion.

We are concerned here only with the first count of plaintiff’s declaration wherein it sets forth a claim based on an express…