Case ID: f-cas_15/html/1215-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "THE COURT,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 8,660.
    MACKBEE v. GRIFFITH.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 336.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Oct. Term, 1822.
    Contracts—Board and Lodging— Prostitutes.
    A woman who keeps prostitutes for gain cannot recover in an action against them for boarding and lodging.
    Indebitatus assumpsit ana quantum meruit, for boarding and lodging.
    Mr. Jones, for plaintiff,
    did not object to the instruction.
   THE COURT,

upon the motion of Mr. Key and Mr. Lear, for defendant, instructed the jury, that if they should be satisfied by the evidence, that the plaintiff kept a bawdy-house, and that the defendant lived with her for the purposes of prostitution, and that the plaintiff was to derive any profit from the prostitution of the defendant, the plaintiff could not recover in that action.