Johnson v. Hilton

Lumpkin, Justice.

The code distinctly declares that champertous contracts are against the policy of the law, and cannot be enforced. See section 2750. We think there can be no doubt that the deed upon which the plaintiff relied for the purpose of making out his title was a contract of this character. It appears that he accepted it from certain other persons, to whom he paid nothing, but took it in contemplation of a suit for the land to be instituted by himself, he agreeing, in substance, that if the suit was successful he would pay something to the grantors, but if unsuccessful he was to bear…