Case ID: misc_46/html/0614-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Blanchard, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harry Mendoza, Respondent, v. Joseph Rose, Impleaded with the Coney Island Jockey Club and Oliver B. Smith, Appellants.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
    March, 1905.)
    Horse racing — Betting — Recovery of money lost — Demand.
    In an action to recover money lost at betting on a horse race, the complaint need not allege a demand for the return of the money.
    Appeal by the defendants from a judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff in the Municipal Court of the city of New York, sixth district, borough of Manhattan.
    
      Nicoll, Anable & Lindsay, for appellants.
    Michael Martin Dolphin, for respondent,
   Blanchard, J.

The plaintiff seeks'in this action to recover the sum of $100, the amount of a wager which he claims he made on a horse race and lost. The wager was made with the defendant Bose, a so-called “ bookmaker.”

The action is brought under the provisions of sections 8 and 9 of 1 Bevised Statutes, 662, 1 Birdseye (3d ed.), 299, 300.

The trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff by the direction of the court.

At the opening of the trial and again at the close of the plaintiff’s case, the defendant Bose moved for a dismissal of the complaint on the ground that it failed to allege a demand for the payment of the amount of the wager. The motions were denied and exceptions taken.

The precise question raised by these exceptions has been . recently decided adversely to the defendant in Mendoza v. Levy, 98 App. Div. 326, and, therefore, need not be further considered here.

The plaintiff’s evidence sufficiently establishes the cause of action under the statute, and as none of the exceptions discloses airy error calling for a reversal-, the judgment should be affirmed, with costs.

Scott and O’Gorman, JJ., concur.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.