Marshall v. Lovell

KENYON, Circuit Judge.

This is a peculiar ease. Appellant, Marshall, seeks to recover certain property, or its value, which he delivered to appellee in performance of a contract conceded by him to be illegal, and so found by the trial court. Briefly the circumstances are these:

Appellee was heavily interested as a bondholder in the Wenatchee Talley Gas & Electric Company, a corporation of the state of Washington (hereinafter designated as the-Wenatchee Company). The affairs of that company becoming critical, a bondholders’ committee was formed, consisting of ap-pellee, Lovell, one John B.…