Gaming – Declaration that there was a promissory note on a wager given to the piaintiff by defendant in case of a decree in the Court of Chancery should be reversed in the House of Lords, to which decree the person who had laid upon the reversal was party, and had set off his loss by the reversal, upon which the decision would be against him by his gain upon the wager if it should be reversed. They gave in evidence a copy of a minute-book of the House of Lords. Verdict for the plaintiff – upon which motion for a new trial, because evidence insufficient. Lord Mansfield being against them upon that point, there was another that the contract was illegal : so that the points in this case were two.
1. That the evidence was insufficient, which went to the new trial.
2. That the contract was illegal which went to the motion in arrest of judgment.
Citations:
[1774] EngR 57, (1774) Lofft 383, (1774) 98 ER 706
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
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See Also – Jones v Randall 7-Feb-1774
In an action upon a wager, whether a decree of the Court of Chancery would be reversed on appeal to the House of Lords, proof of the decree arid reversal is sufficient without shewing the previous proceedings below. – A copy of the judgment of . .
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Contract
Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.373913
