Woodson v. Hopkins

Citations

• 85 Miss. 171

Syllabus

<p>Equity. Jurisdiction. Fraudulent conduct. Illegal contracts.</p> <p>A lender of money at extortionate rates of interest, under contracts which are void as against public policy, who establishes an agency for the carrying on of his nefarious business, cannot maintain a suit in equity against one who was placed by him in charge of such business for an accounting where he must call in the aid, directly or indirectly, of the illegal contracts to make out his case. GilMam v. Brown, 43 Miss., 641, overruled.</p>