Supreme Court of North Carolina June 5, 1870 (Kingsbury v. . Gooch)

Dick, J.

The plaintiff cannot enforce the contract sued on, as he loaned the money to the principal obligor, with a knowledge that it was to be used for the illegal purpose of hiring a substitute, to be "placed in the Confederate Army:

Critcher

v. Holloway,

ante,

526. The plea of the general issue was waived on the trial, and the general verdict, although informal, is not erroneous.