21 Ga. App. 448 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1917
“Where parties are engaged in illegal transactions, whether malum prohibitum or malum in se. the courts of this State will not interpose to grant any relief. In such cases the rule is, for the court to leave the parties where it finds them, no matter whether the illegality of the contract appears from the plaintiff’s ease, or is set up by way of defense.” Bugg v. Towner, 41 Ga. 315; Howell v. Fountain, 3 Ga. 176 (46 Am. D. 415); Puckett v. Roquemore, 55 Ga. 235; Garrison v. Burns, 98 Ga. 762 (26 S. E. 471); Martin v. Bartow Iron Works, 35 Ga. 320 (Fed. Cas. No. 9157); City of Dawson v. Waterworks co., 106 Ga. 696 (32 S. E. 907); Postelle v. Rivers, 112 Ga. 850 (38 S. E. 109); Sessions v. Payne, 113 Ga. 955 (39 S. E. 325); Harris v. Barfield Music House, 18 Ga. App. 444 (89 S. E. 592); Barfield Music House v. Harris, 20 Ga. App. 42 (92 S. E. 402); Jones v. Crawford, 21 Ga. App. 29 (93 S. E. 515). «The allegations made by the plaintiff’s petition bring this suit clearly within the rule above stated; and there was no error in sustaining the demurrer.
Judgment affirmed.