AN INTERESTING CASE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17935, 31 July 1920, Page 5

AN INTERESTING CASE.

SEQUEL TO STRATFORD TIONSTRATFORD, July 30. I The Magistrate’s Court was enI caged to-day on an interesting case. lin which George Morrison, blackI smith. claimed from Stanley Sharp, ‘hairdresser, the sum of £5O paid by i Morrison to Sharp as stakes in a wager on the result of the general election in Stratford. Morrison claimed that Sharp paid over the I money contrary to his instructions. ‘ Counsel for the defendant contended ■that the plaintiff was precluded from bringing an action bv the last words lot Section 70 of the Gaming Act, ' which sets cut tlmt no action can [be brought in respect of money “Won. lost, or staked " on any waigering transaction. Counsel for the i plaintiff contended that the trans'action between Morrison and Sharp ■ was net a wagering transaction, but ‘only an ordinary contract between ‘principal and agent. Counsel for I plaintiff also held that the words [quoted meant no more than was contained in Section 69 that therefore i the New Zealand Act was similar to I the English Act, and that decisions under the English Act gave plaintiff a right to bring the action. Decision was reserved for a fortnight.