Money paid at request of another for his gambling debt is recoverable.
On a plea of the statute of gaming. 1788, 5, 633.
HAYWOOD, J.
Money lent to play with, or to pay, at the time of loss, is not recoverable. But it is otherwise of a gaming debt paid by a third person, at the request of the loser.
NOTE. — See Act of 1788 (1 Rev. Stat., ch. 51), and the cases upon the construction of it, Anonymous, 3 N.C. 231; Stowell v. Guthrie, ibid., 297; Hodges v. Pitman, 4 N.C. 276; Turner v. Peacock, 13 N.C. 303; Hudspeth v. Wilson, ibid., 372; Dunn v. Holloway, 16 N.C. 322.
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