Eggleston v. Pantages

Citations

• 103 Wash. 458
• 175 P. 34
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1103

Syllabus

<p>Contracts — Illegality — Public Policy — Interference With Justice. A contract for tbe dismissal of a stockholder’s action for the appointment of a receiver is void as against public policy, where it provided that, in consideration of a certain sum to be paid plaintiff, the action was to be dismissed, the papers not filed, and no information of it given to any person, the president having a prospective purchaser for the corporation, and other creditors benefited by the suit being deprived of their remedy to the advantage of the plaintiff.</p>