Case Name: JACOBY v. HEIDELBERG
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1900-11-27
Citations: 67 N.Y.S. 146
Docket Number: 
Parties: JACOBY v. HEIDELBERG.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 67
Pages: 146–146

Head Matter:
(33 Misc. Rep. 111.)
JACOBY v. HEIDELBERG.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
November 27, 1900.)
Gamins—Loan to Discharge Gamins Contract—Recovery.
Where plaintiff in an action to recover a loan made to discharge a gambling contract was directly connected with the transaction, he cannot recover, no matter in what form the loan was made.
Appeal from municipal court, borough of Manhattan, First district.
Action by Joseph Jacoby against Charles Heidelberg. Judgment in favor of defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
Argued before BEEKMAN, P. J., and GIEGERICH and O’GORMAN, JJ.
Abraham Levy, for appellant.
Adams & Adams, for respondent.

Opinion:
O'GORMAN, J.
The principle is now well settled with respect to gambling contracts that, where a loss is already incurred, any person other than the winner who advances money or other property to the loser to enable him to pay the loss may recover such advance in the absence of a special statute. 14 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 642. But the plaintiff in this case is in no position to invoke the benefit of this rule. He was a person directly connected with the transaction. He was the only winner in the game, and there is no authority going to the extent of permitting a winner to recover from a loser, no matter what form the loan may take.
Judgment affirmed, with costs. All concur.