Case Name: Jonah Thompson v. Joseph Milligan
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1820-06
Citations: 2 Cranch 207
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jonah Thompson v. Joseph Milligan.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 207–207

Head Matter:
Jonah Thompson v. Joseph Milligan.
It was not lawful, in 1812, in the District of Columbia, to sell lottery tickets, in the Potomac and Shenandoah Navigation Lottery, although the lottery was authorized by an Act of the Legislature of Maryland passed in 1809; and a note given for the purchase of such tickets, in 1812, being given for an unlawful consideration was void.
Assumpsit, upon the defendant’s promissory note for $2422.50, given for the purchase of tickets in the second class of the Potomac and Shenandoah Navigation Lottery, authorized by an Act of Maryland passed in 1809.
Mr. Jones, for the defendant,
contended that the sale of such tickets in this county is void as being contrary to the Act of Maryland, 1792, c. 58, adopted by the Act of Congress of 27th February, 1801, [2 Stat. at Large, 103,] as decided by this Court in Uaiukins v. Cox & Smith, at June term, 1819, (ante, 173.)
Mr. Key, for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
The plaintiff became nonsuit.