West v. Camden
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND. The case, as stated by the court, was as follows : . This is an action at law, brought, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of- Maryland, by William C. West against Johnson N. Camden.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND. The case, as stated by the court, was as follows : . This is an action at law, brought, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of- Maryland, by William C. West against Johnson N. Camden. The principal count of the declaration alleges that, in December, 1877, the defendant engaged the plaintiff to serve as vicé-president of the Baltimore United Oil Company of Baltimore County, a Maryland corporation, in which the defendant was largely interested, and promised, in consideration of the .plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Blatciiford,-
having stated the* case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the 'court.
The first instruction virtually took the case from the jury, although it appears that, on a prayer by the defendant: to the court to instruct the jury that- the plaintiff had offered no evidence legally sufficient to entitle him to recover, and that their verdict must be for the defendant, the court refused to grant that prayer.
We think that under no circumstances could the plaintiff recover in this action, for the reason that the alleged contract was void as against public policy, and that…
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