National Exchange Bank v. Woodside
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Howell Circuit Court. — How. 8. L. Clark, Special Judge. An agreement to reward a public officer for doing his duty is void, as against public policy. Kick v. Merry, 28 Mo. 72; Hatch v. Mann, 15 Wendell (N. Y. C. L.) 42; Gilmore v. Lewis, 12 Ohio 281; Hogan v. Stophlet, 44 L. R. A. 809.
1Opinion of the CourtReyburn, J.
The indebtedness of defendants to' plaintiff upon their joint note, upon which this action was brought, was not disputed at the trial, but the dispute was upon the counterclaim embodied in the answer of J. Posey Woodside, wherein he averred that on the twenty-second day of September, 1900, he was appointed receiver of the Oregon County Bank, in and by the circuit court of Oregon county, and qualified and took charge of the assets of the insolvent bank of which plaintiff was the largest creditor in sum of $42,000. That pending the receivership, the stockholders of the embarrassed bank and…
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