A BETTING CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3108, 5 February 1909, Page 5

A BETTING CASE.

By Telegraph—Press Association. x WELMN'.ITON, February L ln the betting case of John Kemp, and Percy Maxwell Cameron v. George Owlev, for the recovery ol the sum of £sl, dfciaion was given by Dr. A. McArthur S.M., to-day.

The plaintiffs' claim was that - they had given defendant £1 to in- ' vest for them on the at - the New Zealand Cup meeting at Christchurch v Defendant, they al- : leged, was charged with certain instructions whereby he should have returned them the sum of £U2. Defendant, who only accounted to the plaintiffs for the sum of £62 15s, denied that he was bo-ind down I by • instructions, but was to use his own

■ discretion as to the speculation. • Commenting on the claim His Wor- . ship stated tuat section 70 of the ' Gaming Act, 1908, was, in his opinion, conclusive as to the plaintiffs' right of action. It provided that "r.o : action shsll be brought or maintained

to recover any sum of money won, lost or staked in any betting transaction whatever." What, he remarked, could be plainer or more comprehensivei If young men, or old ones, for that matter, entrusted a companion with a sum of money to invest on the totalisator, then no instructions given to him would render him legally liable to repay any dividend he might receive—at least that was his opinion gathered from the provision of the Gaming Act, 1908. Those who gave the money for investment must not rely on the law for rceovery, but on the honour of the peraon to whom the money was given. Judgment must be for the defendant, but no costs would be allowed.