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KRAMER v. BALLY'S PARK PLACE

No. 8, September Term, 1986.

311 Md. 387 (1988)

535 A.2d 466

RICHARD E. KRAMER v. BALLY'S PARK PLACE, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 11, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Lipsitz, Baltimore, for appellant.

Neal S. Melnick (Melvyn J. Weinstock, Richard M. Kind and Weinberger, Weinstock, Sagner, Stevan & Harris, P.A., on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The question in this case is whether Maryland courts should enforce a gambling contract, made in another state where the type of gambling engaged in is lawful and the contract is enforceable, when the type of gambling is illegal in Maryland.

I.

On October 29, 1981, while in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Richard E. Kramer wrote a check in the amount of $5,000, drawn upon the Maryland National Bank, and payable to Bally's Park Place,...

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