2 D.C. 123
Decided November 15, 1816
This was an action of assumpsit brought by Thomas W. Peyton, against Richard Veitch and Anthony Crease, joint merchants, trading under the firm of Richard Veitch & Co., Jonah Thompson and Craven P. Thompson, joint merchants, trading under the firm of Jonah Thompson & Son, and Jacob Hoffman, to recover the sum of $4,000 paid by the plaintiff to redeem the schooner Alert and cargo, which had been seized as forfeited, in Curacoa, for violation of the laws of that place, by…
Relies on Hollingsworth v. Fry
Decided 1816-11-15
¶1*125Bills of exception were taken, but no writ of error prosecuted.
¶2Upon the question whether the illegality of the payment should prevent the plaintiff from recovering, the defendants’ counsel cited 1 Esp. N. P. 89, 21 and 23; Mabin v. Colson, 4 Dall. 298; Belding v. Pitkin, 2 Caines, 147; and the plaintiff’s counsel cited Holman v. Johnson, Cowp. 341; Digges v. Lawrence, 3 T. R. 454; Waymell v. Reed, 5 T. R. 599, and Esp. N. P. 20, Am. Ed.