Alexander v. Gould
This text of 1 Mass. 165 (Alexander v. Gould) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
But the Court (Strong, Sedgwick, and Thacher, justices) ruled .that the evidence was inadmissible. Sedgwick, J., said the circumstances did not, as yet, appear to be strong enough.
The counsel for Gould, to shorten the case, immediately gave in evidence the declarations of the demandant, by which it clearly appeared that the note itself had been given to Osmer, and endorsed to Alexander, upon a corrupt agreement, between Alexander and Linnett, respecting false testimony given, or to have been given, in a court of justice. Upon which, the Court said that it was of no consequence, in the present case, whether the deed be fraudulent or not; that the demandant ought to come into Court with clean hands ; but coming as he does, it is impossible for him to maintain the action.
Demandant nonsuited.
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