Cooper v. Johnston

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an unlicensed contractor cannot recover under his or her contract because such contract is void as against public policy
• noting that an individual accused of being unlicensed contractor “was not connected with [the licensed contracting company] as an officer, partner or employee”
• \Vitality cannot be injected into an illegal transaction by way of estoppel.\
• ''[A] party to an illegal contract cannot recover from the other party money received by him under and by virtue of the contract, by an action on the contract, or on the common counts, or for a conversion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).