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IMPORTANT BETTING CASE Court of Appeals at Edinburgh Upholds the Legality of Betting Credit System in Vogue on Other Side. Some weeks: ago in an important decision the legality of credit betting was affirmed by the justiciary appeal court in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the sheriff court at Greenock there were two cases in which individuals were charged with using an office for the purpose of receiving money as a consideration for a promise to pay on the results of horse races and football matches. It was found in evidence that no bets were made in the premises, except by telephone or telegraph or letter. No one went to the office to bet, and no money was paid by clients before or at the time of making bets. Clients accounts were rendered daily or weekly, and the winnings or losses were paid or received by the accused. In dismissing the charges the sheriff said evidence showed that clients of the accused made no deposit at their premises before or when the bets were made, or .before the sporting event had been determined, and that the accused paid the winnings to their clients without any payment being made by the clients, and trusted to their clients honor to pay their losses. Consequently the premises were not kept open or used for the purpose of money beiiu received as a consideration for an undertaking to pay thereafter money on events or contingencies of or relating to horse races and football matches. The public prosecutor appealed against this finding, but the justiciary court upheld the sheriff, and dismissed the appeal. The lord justice clerk said the question had been decided in a former case which had affirmed that credit betting was not struck at by the betting act. Lords Dundas ,and..Salvcsen concurred.
