Case ID: la-ann_20/html/0158-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Howell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 1578.
    Logan Railey v. Andrew H. Gay.
    Where a party sold a horse during the late war to be used in the interest of the rebellion, he cannot enforce the payment of the price in the courts of the country; the sale being made for an unlawful , purpose.
    A lx PPBAL from the District Court, Parish of Iberville, Posey, J.
    
      W. B. Bobertson, for plaintiff and appellant.
    
      Barrow & Pope, for defendant and appellee.
   Howell, J.

This is an action by the payee against the drawer of a sight-draft, dated in Kentucky, on 7th October, 1862, and protested for non-payment, in the parish of Iberville, on 26th November, 1866; the defence to which is that the consideration is one that cannot be recognized by the courts of the country, being the price of a horse purchased by defendant, from plaintiff, "to be used, with the knowledge of the latter, in the service and aid of the late rebellion.

The defence is sustained by the evidence, and there can be no question as to the principle of law, that-obligations or cpntracts, with such cause, cannot be enforced in our tribunals.

Judgment affirmed.