Legal Opinion
Hope v. Linden Park Blood Horse Ass'n
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided March 15, 1896PublishedCited by 13 opinions
On error to the Union County Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
*628The opinion of the court was delivered by
The Chancellor.
The judgment reviewed is in an action upon contract brought by the Linden Park Blood Horse Association to recover from James W. Hope the sum of $5,000 paid by it to him in August, 1893, as hereinafter stated, in which the defendant pleaded the general issue.
The case was tried before the judge at Circuit without a jury-
Errors are assigned upon refusals of the judge to nonsuit and to admit and consider the defence that the money sued for was paid to Mr. Hope in pursuance of a corrupt and illegal agreement.
The plaintiff below proved that it…
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