Thallhimer v. Brinckerhoff , 1 Lock. Rev. Cas. 30 ( 1799 )

The Court of Errors reversed the decision of the Supreme Court which held it to he champerty, and decided, that the plaintiff might maintain assumpsit for money had and received to his use, and that the agreement was not tainted with champerty, and that the husband whose wife might, by possibility, be heir of one who claimed the land, might aid his brother-in-law in the maintai'nance of his suit upon an agreement to have a part of the land.