McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.

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• summarizing case law on illegal contracts and extending rule of nonenforcement to instances where contract performance was tainted by commercial bribery
• summarizing case law on illegal contracts and extending rule of nonenforcement to instances where contract performance was tainted by commercial bribery
• distinguishing illegalities which “are merely incidental to the contract sued on”
• even if contract entirely legal, public policy will deny its enforcement if its performance would practice fraud on third party
• \We are not working here with narrow questions of technical law. We are applying fundamental concepts of morality and fair dealing not to be weakened by exceptions.\
• “It is the settled law of this State (and probably of every other State

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Other cases named McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.

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• McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.
  New York Supreme Court· 1955-12-30· cited 3×
• McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1958-09-25
• McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1959-03-26