Case Name: Corporation of Washington, for the use of the holder of ticket No. 1037, v. Moses Young's Administrator; and Brent et al. v. Gideon Davis
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1825-12
Citations: 2 Cranch 632
Docket Number: 
Parties: Corporation of Washington, for the use of the holder of ticket No. 1037, v. Moses Young’s Administrator; and Brent et al. v. Gideon Davis.
Judges: (Thruston, J., not having heard the argument, gave no opinion,)
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: 632–633

Head Matter:
Corporation of Washington, for the use of the holder of ticket No. 1037, v. Moses Young’s Administrator; and Brent et al. v. Gideon Davis.
The holders of tickets in the Washington lottery, have no right to sue the managers upon the bond given by them to the Corporation of Washington, without the leave of the corporation; -nor to sue the contractor for the lottery, on his bond given to the managers, without their consent.
These causes, in which the judgment of this Court had been reversed in the Supreme Court of the United States in January term, 1825, were sent down to this Court by mandate, setting aside the verdict and proceedings up to the declaration.
Mr. Jones, for the defendants,
now moved this Court to dismiss these suits, according to intimation given in the opinion of the Supreme Court in 10 Wheat. 410, that Court having decided that the holders of the tickets had no right to use the names of the corporation and the managers without their leave. This motion is made in behalf of the Corporation of Washington and of the managers, as well as of Gideon Davis.
Mr. Key, contra.
The bonds were given for the benefit of the public; and any person interested has a right to sue upon them. They are like the bonds of an auctioneer. As no objection was made until after verdict and judgment, and the causes have been carried up to the Supreme Court by writ of error, and sent down again by mandate, and no special order of the corporation to make this motion is shown, the assent of the corporation to the suits is to be presumed.

Opinion:
The Court
(Thruston, J., not having heard the argument, gave no opinion,)
were of opinion, that the plaintiffs had a right to dismiss their suits, and ordered them to be dismissed.
January 10, 1826. Morsell, J., then left the bench, to attend his father, who was ill in Calvert County in Maryland.