Case Name: MORFORD against VUNCK
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1813-05
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 1030
Docket Number: 
Parties: MORFORD against VUNCK.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 584–584

Head Matter:
MORFORD against VUNCK.
OH CERTIORARI.
Agreement to deliver a prisoner, or pay executions, being without consideration, is void.
The action below was brought on an article of agreement, made and signed by Morford, the defendant below; in which agreement, he promised to deliver to Yunck, who was a constable, one Joseph Mount, at the court house in Shrews-bury, at a certain time, against whom, Yunck had two executions; or on his failure so to do, he would pay the amount of said executions. There was no consideration •expressed in the articles of agreement.
Ewing, for the plaintiff in error,
contended, that there was either no consideration for the promise, or if there was, it was an unlawful one.
L. II. Stoolcton, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court.
The action cannot be supported.
Judgment reversed.