Case Name: Crigler & Crigler Company v. Laramore
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1916-05-19
Citations: 18 Ga. App. 132
Docket Number: 6895
Parties: Crigler & Crigler Company v. Laramore.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 18
Pages: 132–133

Head Matter:
6895.
Crigler & Crigler Company v. Laramore.
Decided May 19, 1916.
Complaint; from city court of Leesburg — Judge Clayton Jones presiding. July 19, 1915.
D. H. Redfearn, for plaintiff, cited:
Dunn v. State, 82 Ga. 27 (8 S. E. 806, 3 L. R. A. 199); Cureton v. State, 136 Ga. 93 (70 S. E. 786); Small Grain Distilling Co. v. Davis, 11 Ga. App. 114 (74 S. E. 897); Glass v. Childs, 9 Ga. App. 520 (71 S. E. 920); Mixon v. Walker, 9 Ga. App. 610 (71 S. E. 1007); R. M. Rose Co. v. State, 133 Ga. 356 (65 S. E. 770, 36 L. R. A. (N. S.) 443); Adams Express Co. v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, 238 U. S. 190 (35 Sup. Ct. 824).
R. R. Forrester, for defendant, cited:
Thurman v. Kyle, 71 Ga. 628; Dunn v. Welsh, 62 Ga. 243; Harvey v. Thompson, 2 Ga. App. 569 (60 S. E. 11); Small Grain Distilling Co. v. Davis, 11 Ga. App. 114 (74 S. E. 897); Ralston v. Boady, 20 Ga. 449; Bashinski v. State, 122 Ga. 164; Kessler v. State, 119 Ga. 301; Bashinski v. State, 123 Ga. 508 (51 S. E. 499); Kessler v. Pearson, 126 Ga. 725 (5 S. E. 963, 8 Ann. Cas. 180); Postelle v. Rivers, 112 Ga. 850 (38 S. E. 109); Corbin v. Houlehan, 100 Maine, 246 (61 Atl. 131); 5 Decennial Dig., title Contracts, § 122; Penal Code (1910), § 434; Allen v. Hawks, 30 Mass. 79; Pottle v. Greely, 54 Mass. 286; Miller v. Post, 83 Mass. 435; Murray v. Williams, 121 Ga. 63 (48 S. E. 686); Conley v. Sims, 71 Ga. 161; Kleckley v. Leyden, 63 Ga. 216; R. M. Rose Co. v. State, 133 Ga. 356 (65 S. E. 770, 36 L. R. A. (N. S.) 443); Whitley v. McConnell, 133 Ga. 738 (66 S. E. 933, 27 L. R. A. (N. S.) 287, 134 Am. St. R. 223); Delamater v. South Dakota, 20 S. S. 23 (8 L. R. A. (N. S.) 774, 104 N. W. 537).

Opinion:
Broyles, J.
1. The suit was upon a promissory note for the purchase-price of whisky. The traveling representative of the plaintiff personally took the defendant's order for the whisky in Albany, Georgia, and the whisky was later shipped to the defendant by express from Covington, Kentucky, to Albany, Ga. At the time the order was given, the defendant stated to the plaintiff's representative that he was buying the whisky for the purpose of selling it in Georgia in violation of the prohibition law: Held, that the contract was based upon an immoral and illegal consideration, and could not be enforced.
2. The court, sitting by consent without the intervention of a jury, did not err in rendering a judgment in favor of the defendant.
Judgment affirmed.