Hartwig v. Booth
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Denis E. Sullivan, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1918. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Matchett
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal by defendant from a decree which set aside as void a judgment obtained by the defendant in the circuit court of Cook county for the sum of $1,319.35 on the 25th of October, 1915. The appellee alleged and the decree finds that the indebtedness for which said judgment was entered grew put of gambling transactions in grain contrary to the Criminal Code and was therefore void. Section 130 of that Code (Hurd’s Rev. St. 1917, p. 979, Call. 1916 Stat. ¶ 3733) provides:
“"Whoever contracts to have or give to himself or…
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