Johnson v. McGregor

This is a special action on the case, in which appellee recovered judgment against appellants, in the circuit court of Macon county, for §690. That judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Court for the Third District. The action was brought to recover treble the amount claimed to have been lost by appellee’s husband, H. B. McGregor, to appellants in certain games of chance, and was based upon section 132 of the Criminal Code, which provides that money or other valuable thing so lost “at any time or sitting,” amounting in the whole to the sum of §10, may be recovered by the loser from the…