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People v. Reese

63 Cal.App. 198 (Cal. Ct. App. 1923)
People v. Reese

1 Citing case

  1. Homami v. Iranzadi

    211 Cal.App.3d 1104 (Cal. Ct. App. 1989)   Cited 29 times
    Declining to enforce an oral contract that provided that a buyer of real property would pay interest secretly to the seller in order to allow the seller to avoid declaring interest income and thus to evade required taxes

    If the plaintiff cannot open his case without showing that he has broken the law, the court will not assist him, whatever his claim in justice may be upon the defendant."'" ( C.I.T. Corp. v. Breckenridge, supra, 63 Cal.App. 198, 200.) Nor does it matter that the illegality has not been pleaded.