Case Name: BADER v. CINCINNATI (City)
Court: Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-10-29
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 835
Docket Number: No. 181915
Parties: BADER v. CINCINNATI (City)
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 835–835

Head Matter:
BADER v. CINCINNATI (City)
Hamilton County Common Pleas
No. 181915.
Oct. 29, 1923
241. LOTTERIES.
Consideration in a strict contractural sense not (required.
Appearances — Joseph W. Heintzman, for plaintiffs :'n error; Saul Zielonka, Chauncey Pichel, for City.

Opinion:
MATTHEWS, J.
Epitomized Opinion
Plaintiffs in error who were engaged in the restaurant business distributed tickets bearing certain numbers corresponding to duplicate tickets retained by them from which they determined by chance a certain number the possessor of which received an automobile. A ticket was given with each sale to patrons of the restaurant without extra charge. Plaintiffs in error were convicted of violating 130G3 GC. and an ordinance of the city forbidding the carrying on or promoting of a lottery or scheme of chance. They prosecuted error to this court, contending no lottery because of a lack of consideration for the tickets. Held.
Under the Ohio statute consideration in the strict contractual sense is not an element of offense. Judgment affirmed.