Show A Legal Decision on Betting In the case of Jesse Campbell Matt M Allen to recover 1600 bet on a footrace foot-race the jury on instruction of the Supreme Su-preme Court at Sacramento found for the plaintiff Judge McFarland instructed the jury that it is a settled law of that State that if a man makes wager on any race and deposits the whole or any part of the stake with a stakeholder he may before the race is run and the money lost withdraw from the bet and demand the return of the stakes and if the stakeholder stake-holder refuses to return the money it may be recovered by action at law |