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

Case No. 8,935.
    MADDOX v. THORNTON.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 260.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Oct. Term, 1821.
    Consideration — Immoral—Training RaceHorse.
    The feeding and training a race-horse is not an immoral consideration, and will support an assumpsit to pay for the same.
    Mr. Law, for defendant,
    contended that the feeding and training the defendant’s race-horse, for the worth of which this action was brought, was an immoral consideration, and within the reason of the decision of this court in the case of Holmead v. Maddox [Case No. 6,629], at December term, 1818.
    Mr. Jones, contra.
   THE COURT

(CRANCH, Chief Judge, doubting)

said that this case did not come up to that. The horse might be training for a private race; or no race might be run, &c.