Powers v. Skinner
Supreme Court of Vermont
Book Account. The auditor reported that the defendant agreed to pay the plaintiff five hundred dollars, in consideration that the plaintiff agreed to labor faithfully before the legislature of 1853 for a charter of a bank at Royalton.
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Book Account. The auditor reported that the defendant agreed to pay the plaintiff five hundred dollars, in consideration that the plaintiff agreed to labor faithfully before the legislature of 1853 for a charter of a bank at Royalton. The auditor further reported as follows : “ That at the session of 1853, hank charters were asked for at Northfield, Bradford, Waterbury, Jamaica, Springfield, and Royalton, that such applications had been advertised and were known to the parties, at the time of the plaintiff’s employment; that early in the session, the respective friends and hired solicitors…
1Opinion of the CourtKellogg, J.
Courts of justice have, with jealous care, endeavored to protect every branch of the government from all illegitimate and sinister influences and agencies; and it has been settled by a series of decisions, uniform in their reason, spirit, and tendency, that an agreement in' respect to services as a lobby agent, or for the salé'by an individual of his personal influence and solicitations, to procure the passage of a public or private • law by the legislature, is void as being prejudicial to sound legislation, manifestly injurious to the interests of the state, and in express and unqestionable…
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