Case Name: MADDOX v. THORNTON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1821-10
Citations: 16 F. Cas. 362
Docket Number: 
Parties: MADDOX v. THORNTON.
Judges: (CRANCH, Chief Judge, doubting)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 16
Pages: 362–362

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.