Harnden v. Melby
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Trem-pealeau county: A. W. Hewmah, Circuit Judge. . This action was brought to recover from the defendant, tbe stakeholder, the sum of $100, wagered on the result of an election held November 8, 1892. The complaint states that a wager of $50 on each side was made by and between Zibet, ■Harnden and Yictor Kempter, October 25, 1892, each of the parties having deposited that sum with the defendant, a banker, as stakeholder, and…
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Trem-pealeau county: A. W. Hewmah, Circuit Judge. . This action was brought to recover from the defendant, tbe stakeholder, the sum of $100, wagered on the result of an election held November 8, 1892. The complaint states that a wager of $50 on each side was made by and between Zibet, ■Harnden and Yictor Kempter, October 25, 1892, each of the parties having deposited that sum with the defendant, a banker, as stakeholder, and that they made a further deposit with him of $50 each for the same purpose, November 1,1892; and it was aheged that the…
1Opinion of the CourtPutney, J.
This aetion was brought under the statute .(R. S. sec. 4532) which provides that “Any person who „ , . by betting or wagering on any game, election *8, . . or on the issue or the event thereof, . . . shall have put up, staked or deposited with any stakeholder or third person any money, property or thing in action, or shall have lost and delivered the same to any winner thereof, may within three months after such putting up, staking or depositing, sue for and recover the same from such stakeholder or third person, whether such money, property or thing in action has been lost or won, or whether…
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