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· 1/6/1938

Winstead v. Menasco

Citations

  • 93 F.2d 1022
  • 1938 U.S. App. LEXIS 3709

How courts have described this case

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

  • a contract which may have given a doctor the incentive to kill his patient was insufficient to declare the contract void as against public policy
  • “The public policy of the state or of the. nation is to be found in its Constitution and its statutes, and, when cases arise concerning matters upon which they are silent, then in its judicial decisions and the constant practice of the government officials.”
  • whether contract violates public policy

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