Section 6
SEC. 6. Any person who shall keep, maintain, or have charge or possession or control of any gambling house, or who shall knowingly permit any property owned by him to be used as a gambling house or who shall have any interest in any gambling house, shall be punished as provided in section three of this Act. Any person who loses any money or valuable consideration or thing in any gambling house, or his heirs, executors, administrators, or judgment creditor may, within three years thereafter, recover the same or its value together with an additional sum equal to the value thereof in an action in which all persons keeping, maintaining, having charge or control oil any gambling game, or permitting or having any interest or participating therein, shall be jointly and severally liable.