Case ID: nh_80/html/0067-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Young, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Manchester,
    Feb. 1, 1921.
    Agereas Koutsabelis v. Charles Pappas.
    A police court may authorize the plaintiff to reduce his ad damnum below one hundred dollars where justice so requires; and thereupon a motion for an immediate transfer to the superior court under Laws 1915, c. 30, s. 5, may be properly denied.
    Money lost by gambling may be recovered in assumpsit under P. S., c. 270, s. 17.
    Assumpsit, to recover money lost by gambling. Trial by the court. Verdict for the plaintiff. The court permitted the plaintiff to reduce his ad damnum from two hundred to ninety-nine dollars, and denied the defendant’s motion for an immediate transfer of the case to the superior eourt. Transferred from the municipal court of Manchester by Perkins, J., on the defendant’s exception to these rulings and the denial of his motion for a directed verdict.
    
      Bois & Hurley and Arthur B. Hayden, for the plaintiff.
    
      James A. Broderick, for the defendant.
   Young, J.

It cannot be said that the court erred when it permitted the plaintiff to reduce his ad damnum, for the test to decide that question is to inquire as to what justice requires. This disposes of the defendant’s exception to the denial of his motion for an immediate transfer of the case to the superior court. Laws 1915, c. 30, s. 5. Just what question is intended to be raised by defendant’s exception to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict and to the admission of plaintiff’s testimony that he made a bet of seventy dollars with the defendant on a wrestling match is not clear; for P. S., c. 270, s. 17, provides that money lost by gambling may be recovered in an action of assumpsit.

Exceptions overruled.

All concurred.