Meredith v. Barrows
Meredith v. Barrows
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
As the sureties of Stewart, the appellants cannot in any event be liable for prizes sold by him or any one else, whether claiming to operate under the Frankfort grant or not, if such prizes be sold in a single number lottery. The statute empowers the city council to devise a scheme and to sell the scheme so devised. The scheme was devised, and as devised was to be drawn on the ternary plan, and holders of any of these classes have no more right to draw a single
.Simmons and Dickinson discontinued their cross-petition and are not complaining of the judgment. It would be improper to express any opinion of the question whether the sale of a designated number of classes to each of several persons vests in each a right to have a distinct and separate drawing, or whether the right to operate a lottery is not an entirety under which the owners of classes have collectively the right to operate for their joint benefit according to the proportion which the classes owned by each bears to the whole number of classes in the scheme.
Judgment affirmed. 1
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