 | Ernest Wilson Huffcut, Edwin Hamlin Woodruff - 1925 - 872 páginas
...therefore, not within the rule of Wheeler v. Russell, 17 Mass. 281, and many similar cases, to the effect that " no action will lie upon a contract made in violation of a statute or a principle of the common law "; for the right of the plaintff to make the sale in question, or of... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1882 - 786 páginas
...doubt laid down as a general rule that "no right of action can spring out of an illegal contract," and that "no action will lie upon a contract made in violation of a Mr. Justice DICKEY, dissenting. statute," and that "a contract founded on an act prohibited by statute... | |
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Justice, in delivering the opinion of the court, remarked " that no principle of law is better settled than that no action will lie upon a contract made in violation of a statute, or of a principle of the common law. 
