Answer to Question 1
Gambling contracts
The Georgia Supreme Court held in part that an agreement to purchase a ticket in a lottery sponsored by another state and to share the proceeds if it won was not a gambling contract. The court explained that n a gambling contract one of the parties is certain to lose. By the terms of such a contract the consideration must fall to the one or the other upon the determination of the specified event. In this case, the parties did not contract to gamble against one anotherthey contracted to gamble against the state of Kentucky. The only gambling contract involved was between the state of Kentucky and the holder of the winning lottery ticket. Thus, the issue was whether public policy permitted the parties to evade enforcement of their own agreement. The court held that it did not: There is nothing perceptibly evil, vicious, wicked, immoral or shocking to the prevailing moral sense in this agreement. It was simply an arrangement of convenience and neither party intended to circumvent the law or participate in an illegal act. No Georgia law prohibits the purchase of a lottery ticket in Kentucky and that is the act' contemplated here. That contemplated act was legal, therefore the underlying agreement is also legal and enforceable in Georgia courts. In fact, concluded the court, The public policy of this state would be violated if Talley were denied the opportunity to seek to enforce the alleged agreement.
Answer to Question 2
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