Any person who shall at any time or sitting, by playing at cards, dice table or any other game whatsoever or by betting on the sides or hands of such as do play at any of the games aforesaid, lose to any person or persons so playing or betting, in the whole, the sum or value of fifty dollars and shall pay or deliver such sum or value or any part thereof shall be at liberty, within three months then next ensuing, to sue for and recover the money or goods so lost and paid or delivered or any part thereof from the respective winner or winners thereof, with costs of suit, by action to be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 32-1-10
Suit by loser at cards or other game for recovery of losses
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Berkebile v. Outen (1993)
Most recently applied in Proctor v. Whitlark & Whitlark, Inc. (October 2015)
1962 Code SECTION 11-51; 1952 Code SECTION 11-51; 1942 Code SECTION 6308; 1932 Code SECTION 6308; Civ
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