Contracts · MBE-tested

Maddox v. Thornton

2 D.C. 2602 Cranch 260·United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia·1821

(Cranch, C. J., doubting,)

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Opinion

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. [MAJORITY — The Court] 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.