Meyers v. Dillon
Oregon Supreme Court
From Union : Robert Eakin, Judge. Action by John Meyers against John Dillon and Chas. Mellquist. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff as against Dillon, the latter appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chiee Justice Bean
delivered the opinion.
This action was brought, under Section 3528, Hill’s Ann. Laws, against Charles Mellquist and John Dillon, to recover double the amount of $260, alleged to have been lost by plaintiff at a game of vingt-un, or twenty-one, carried on at the time by the defendants as proprietors. The jury found “for the plaintiff and against the defendant John Dillon in the sum of $200, as the actual amount lost.” From a judgment for $400 rendered on such verdict, Dillon appeals.
1. The plaintiff was permitted to give evidence that' Dillon was commonly reputed to be the…
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