# Brooks v. Martin

> Supreme Court of the United States · March 21, 1864 · 69 U.S. 70

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9416696

## Case

- **Full name:** Brooks v. Martin
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** March 21, 1864
- **Citations:** 69 U.S. 70; 2 Wall. 70; 17 L. Ed. 732; 1864 U.S. LEXIS 409
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Catron
- **Judges:** Miller, Catron
- **Cited by:** 180 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Questioned by De Leon v. Manuel Trevino & Bro., 49 Tex. 88 (1878).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9416696

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice • CATRON
diss.ented briefly; on the ground that the partnership, having been formed for the purpose of speculating in soldiers’ claims to warrants, the 'original transaction wa,s a fraud upon the act of Congress; violating pubJic'policy; and that in such a case equity does not interfere.

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