Case Name: Maddox v. Thornton
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1821-10
Citations: 2 Cranch 260
Docket Number: 
Parties: Maddox v. Thornton.
Judges: (Cranch, C. J., doubting,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 260–260

Head Matter:
Maddox v. Thornton.
Tile feeding and training a race-horse is not an immoral consideration, and will support an assumpsit to pay for the same.
Mr. Law, for the 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, at December term, 1818, [ante, 161,]
Mr. Jones, contra.

Opinion:
The Court
(Cranch, C. J., doubting,)
said that this ease did not come up to that. The horse might be training for a private race; or no race might be run, &c.