Court Opinion

ID: 9637717
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:16:43.163205+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:59.545229
License: Public Domain

L. HAND, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
When a man gambles, either with professionals or with friends, he implies that they shall keep their winnings, as he will keep his; and if at the same time he is making ready to retake his losses while he keeps his gains, he is a cheat, and to my thinking a peculiarly despicable cheat. I doubt if any such exist, though it is true that, later under the sting of defeat, some have been found base enough to bring suit. Even that is less odious than to prepare a fraud from the start. Professional gamblers may be caput lupinum, but that does not “justify” the wretch who swindles them, or the traps he may lay. I think that the order should be reversed and the bankrupt discharged.