Searles v. Lum

Decided March 12, 1901

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1901-03-12

Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Franklin Ferris, Judge. ’ (1) A judgment obtained upon a gambling contract is void by the statute, and equity will give no relief, although the defense might have been made at law; nor will it make any difference that the note, on which the judgment is based, passed for value into the hands of an -innocent purchaser. Lucas v. Wane, 12 Sneed. & M. 157; Martin v. Terrel, 12 Sneed. & M. 571; Smither v. Keyes, 30 Miss. 179; 8 Am. and Eng.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1907

1 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Aeeirmed · Decided 1901-03-12

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¶1CONCURRING OPINION.

BLAND, P. J.

¶2I concur in what is said in the opinion of my brother, Goode, J., and think the appellant is barred by the award of the arbitrators to plead the illegality of the transactions through which he became indebted to respondent.