Case ID: njl_3/html/0529-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court. Peknijtgtoh, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HARVEY against BUSH.
    OH OEBTIOBABI.
    No action lies for deceiving a justice in the age of a minor, married by him, and subjecting him to the penalty therefor.
    The action below was brought up by Bush against Harvey, on the following state of demand:
    George Harvey, to Ard. Bush, Dr. For false representations to get married in the year 1811, the 10th March.
    
      
    
    The case was tried, and verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff below, for $50, with costs.
    
      
      Woodruff, Jun.,
    
    moved to reverse this judgment for the .insufficiency of the state of demand. It was said at the bar, that the plaintiff below was a justice of the peace, and that on the defendant representing himself of age, the justice had married him, and that the justice had been prosecuted and fined for this act, and brought this action to recover back the fine, costs and expenses, which had been brought on him for this act.
   By the Court.

In no point of view can this action be sustained.

Peknijtgtoh, J.

Observed that if the foregoing was a correct statement of the cause of action, the plaintiff below had sued to recover back moneys which he had lost by his own wrongful conduct.

Judgment reversed.