Salsbury v. Falk

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Living- ton. The action is assumpsit on the common counts. The plaintiff sought to recover only on a claim for money advanced to the defendant for his use.

The defendant pleaded a special plea, setting up that the money was advanced to him by plaintiff for the jmrpose of "paying him for performing certain illegal services for the plaintiff. The defendant afterward obtained leave to amend this plea, the amended plea being as follows:

“And now comes the defendant, by Strawn & Patton, his attorneys, and defends the wrong and injury, when, etc., and says…