O'Rourke v. United States Mortgage & Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that champerty law barred recovery where plaintiffs “only interest in the assignment was to bring a suit thereon and to earn a fee from the proceeds in the event that the prosecution of the suit was successful”
• finding assignment champertous where plaintiff’s only interest in assignment was potential recovery from suit
• finding assignment champertous where plaintiff’s “only interest in the assignment was to bring a suit thereon and to earn a fee from the proceeds in the event that the prosecution of the suit was successful”
• finding plaintiff was not real party in interest because “its only interest in the assignment was to bring a suit thereon and to earn a fee from the proceeds in the event that the prosecution of the suit was successful”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).