26 Mo. 396 | Mo. | 1858
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is a principle of law dictated by the soundest policy that an agreement can not be enforced by which one person promises to pay another for obtaining or trying to obtain a pardon. (Noonan v. Cole, 3 Esp. 253; Hatzfield v. Gulden, 7
The demurrer was properly sustained, and the judgment, with the concurrence of the other judges, will be affirmed.