Opinion
September Term, 1795.
Money paid at request of another for his gambling debt is recoverable.
Case on a promissory note, the consideration of which appeared to be money paid by the plaintiff to a third person, for money lost at gaming by the defendant.
On a plea of the statute of gaming. 1788, 5, 633.
Money lent to play with, or to pay, at the time of loss, is not recoverable. But it is otherwise of a gaming debt paid by a third person, at the request of the loser.
NOTE. — See Act of 1788 (1 Rev. Stat., ch. 51), and the cases upon the construction of it, Anonymous, 3 N.C. 231; Stowell v. Guthrie, ibid., 297; Hodges v. Pitman, 4 N.C. 276; Turner v. Peacock, 13 N.C. 303; Hudspeth v. Wilson, ibid., 372; Dunn v. Holloway, 16 N.C. 322.
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