Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Pound, Ch. J.

The point for decision in this case depends upon the constitutionality of the Joint Resolution of Congress known as Public Resolution No. 10 of the Seventy-third Congress, entitled “ Joint resolution to insure uniform value to the coins and currencies of the United States,” approved June 5, 1933 (Mason’s U. S. Code, tit. 31, ch. 8, § 430-4; 48 Stat. 112), as related to the standard gold clause contained in a corporate bond issued by defendant for payment of principal and interest “ in gold coin of the United States of America of or equal to the standard of weight and fineness…