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  "id": 8725917,
  "name": "Jordan v. Walker",
  "name_abbreviation": "Jordan v. Walker",
  "decision_date": "1870-12",
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ark.",
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    "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court"
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      "cite": "25 Ark., 574",
      "category": "reporters:state",
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "Jordan v. Walker."
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      {
        "text": "WlLSHIRE, C. J.\nThis was an action of debt, brought by Sallie E. Jordan, as administratrix of Pleasant Jordan, deceased, against William Walker, in the Crawford circuit court, at the November term thereof, 1866, on a writing obligatory, bearing date March ,4, 1863, for $1,000, with interest at ten per cent.\nThe defendant interposed one special plea in bar, alleging that the writing obligatory was executed by him to the plaintiffs intestate, in his life time, in consideration of Confederate treasury notes, loaned and advanced by the plaintiff\u2019s intestate to the defendant, and for no other consideration.\nThe plaintiff replied, confessing the allegation of the defendant\u2019s plea, that the writing obligatory sued upon was executed by the defendant in consideration of Confederate treasury notes, but sets up, in avoidance of the plea, that, although the consideration of the writing obligatory was Confederate treasury notes, it was not made payable in Confederate treasury notes, hut, by the tenor and effect of the writing obligatory, it was payable in lawful currency of the United States, etc.\nThe cause was submitted to the circuit court, sitting as a jury, upon the issue joined, which, found for the defendant and rendered judgment against the plaintiff.\nThe plaintiff moved for a new trial; the court below overruled the plaintiff\u2019s motion, and he brought error.\nWe deem it unnecessary to notice the motion for a new trial. The question of the illegality of the contract presented by defendant\u2019s plea, stands confessed by the plaintiff\u2019s replication.\nThe admission, by the plaintiff\u2019s replication, of the illegality of the consideration of the writing obligatory sued upon, brings this case within the ruling of this court in the case of Latham v. Clark, decided at the last term; 25 Ark., 574. The consideration being illegal, the contract was void ah initio, and the courts will not aid in its inforcement.\nThe judgment of the court below is, in all things, affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "WlLSHIRE, C. J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Clark, Williams <f- Martin, for plaintiff.",
      "Watkins <?\u2022 Hose, for defendant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Jordan v. Walker.\nConeedebate money. \u2014 Where consideration of a contract is Confederate money, the contract is void ab initio.\nError to Crawford Circuit Court.\nHon. Thomas Boles, Circuit Judge.\nClark, Williams <f- Martin, for plaintiff.\nWatkins <?\u2022 Hose, for defendant."
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