BETTING TRANSACTIONS.
RECOVERY OF DEBTS
SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Thursday
The Chief Justice delivered reserved judgment on points of law in the Waitara betting case, in which Ernest Johnston claimed £l4B from Dennis George, arising from a betting transaction in which fraud was alleged. To the questions involved as to recoverability or otherwise by plaintiff under the Gaming Act of money lost and paid by cheque 1 and the recoverability or otherwise of money from a person carrying on the business of bookmaker, the Chief Justice ruled that in the first case the money was recoverable, but if the transaction was with a bookmaker the amount was not, recoverable. The effect of the judgment is that to successfully defend the claim George must establish that Johnston was a bookmaker.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17078, 16 April 1927, Page 11
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