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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Henry L. Sprague, Appellant, v. William S. Webb et al., Respondents.
    
      Sprague v. Webb, 168 App. Div. 292, affirmed.
    (Argued January 14, 1919;
    decided January 28, 1919.)
    Appeal from a judgment entered August 20, 1915, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon the report of a referee and directing a dismissal of the complaint. ' The action was brought to recover from defendant Webb damages for having failed to use his best efforts to carry to a successful termination a joint adventure by which plaintiff, said defendant and another sought to acquire substantially all of the capital stock of a railroad corporation. The Appellate Division held that the scheme was illegal and immoral and that the courts should not aid either party in enforcing it nor give damages for a breach or for services rendered in pursuance thereof.
    
      Lawrence A. Sullivan for appellant.
    
      Howard Taylor, Henry B. Anderson and Roy C. Gasser for William S. Webb, respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs to respondent Webb; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Collin, Cuddeback, Cardozo, Pound, Crane and Andrews, JJ.