Ward Hunt, Neblett v. Macfarland — Opinion of the Court
“ We have no means of knowing whether there can be a defence made to the bond arising from the Statute of Limitations. When the bond has been so recently adjudged by the court to be a subsisting security, and to be a lien upon the plantation directed to be reconveyed,-the party in substance redelivering the bond as a condition of obtaining such reconveyance,-it would seem that a defence of this character could not be a good one. ”
Ward Hunt, Neblett v. Macfarland — Opinion of the Court
“ The court proceeds on the principle, that, as the transaction ought never to have taken place, the parties are to be placed as far as possible in the situation in which they would have stood if there had never been any such transaction. ”
Ward Hunt, Neblett v. Macfarland — Opinion of the Court
“ If they are caught in their own toils, and are themselves the sufferers, it is a legitimate consequence of their violation of the rules of law and morality. Those who violate these laws must suffer the penalty. ”
