Case Name: Genesee Valley Milk Products Company, Plaintiff, v. J. H. Jones Corporation, Defendant
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1910-10
Citations: 69 Misc. 236
Docket Number: 
Parties: Genesee Valley Milk Products Company, Plaintiff, v. J. H. Jones Corporation, Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 236–237

Head Matter:
Genesee Valley Milk Products Company, Plaintiff, v. J. H. Jones Corporation, Defendant.
(Supreme Court, Monroe Trial Term,
October, 1910.)
Contracts — 'Validity of contracts — Effect of invalidity or illegality — Enforcement of illegal contracts in general.
JSTo action lies to recover the purchase price of condensed riiilk ordered to be made of a mixture of skimmed milk and milk from •which cream has not been removed.
Action for goods sold and delivered.
Geo. A. Carnahan and H. C. Nobles, for plaintiff.
Paul M. Pelletreau, for defendant.

Opinion:
Sutherland, J.
The defendant ordered, - and the plaintiff sold and delivered to it within the State of New York, quantities of condensed, milk made of a mixture of pure milk and milk that had been skimmed, the proportion being either one to one or one to two. But the manufacture or sale of condensed milk made from milk from which the cream has been wholly or in part removed is positively forbidden by section 37 of the Agricultural Law, and the plaintiff must fail in this action brought to recover the purchase price.
The defendant was not deceived; it obtained just what it ordered, and has turned about and sold this very product to its own customers. The statute is absolute in terms, however, and the court has no alternative hut to refuse to enforce a contract which the law prohibits. Page Gout-., § 519.
Judgment is accordingly ordered for the defendant.