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

Lockwood v. Knap.
    The court will not lend their aid to assist a party in a,u illicit transaction.
    Aotion of debt by book. Issue to jury. The book was for a quantity of goods, about £1200 worth, which were smuggled out of New York in A. D. 1781, when the enemy were in possession of it. Lockwood had a commissioned hoat under the government, and upon a preconcerted plan, the goods were to he sent out, and Lockwood was to take them and have them condemned, for which he was to receive £100, he accordingly took them, libeled and had them condemned, for which he received his £100, and all charges, and delivered the goods to the defendant under this color of a sale; he charged the defendant in debt for them,, and now brings this action.
   Verdict for the defendant, and accepted by the court — The justice of the plaintiff’s claim is very doubtful; but it is clear that it ivas an illicit transaction, to which this court will give no aid.