Case Name: THOMPSON v. MILLIGAN
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1820-06
Citations: 23 F. Cas. 1062
Docket Number: 
Parties: THOMPSON v. MILLIGAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 23
Pages: 1062–1062

Head Matter:
Case No. 13,969.
THOMPSON v. MILLIGAN.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 207.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
June Term, 1820.
Lotteries — Maryland Statute — District op Columbia — Note—Illegal Consideration.
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 [1 Dorsey’s Laws, 590]; and a note given for the purchase of such tickets, in 1812, being given for an unlawful consideration was void.
[Cited in Smith v. Chesapeake & O. Canal Co., Case No. 13,024.]
Assumpsit, upon the defendant’s promissory note for $2,422.50, 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 defendant
[Joseph Milligan], contended that the sale of such tickets in this county is void as being contrary to the act of Maryland, 1792, c. 58'[1 Dorsey’s Laws, 288], adopted by the act of congress of 27th February, 1801 (2 Stat. 103), as decided by this court in Hawkins v. Cox [Case No. 6,-243], at June term, 1819.
Mr. Key, for plaintiff.

Opinion:
The plaintiff [Jonah Thompson] became non-suit.