Case ID: del_9/html/0448-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      By the Court.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George Gardner v. James Grubb.
    An action for money had and received for a bet will not lie before a justice of the peace.
    Certiorari. The record was—action of assumpsit for money had and received for a bet. Amount demanded $25. And the exception was that it did not sufficiently state and disclose the cause of action, but stated as it was, it was not within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace.
   By the Court.

The record imports that the action was for the money won upon the bet,, and whether* against the stake-holder or the other party to the wager, the judgment must be reversed.