Knox v. Lee
Supreme Court of the United States
These were two suits; the first, a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Texas, the second an appeal from a decree in equity iu the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
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These were two suits; the first, a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Texas, the second an appeal from a decree in equity iu the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. The case in the first one, Knox v. Lee, was thus: Before the rebellion, Mrs. Lee, a loyal citizen of the United States, resident in Pennsylvania, owned a flock of sheep in Texas, which, on the outbreak of the rebellion, she left there in charge of their shepherd. . In March, 1863, the Confederate authorities, under certain statutes which they had passed in aid of the rebellion, confiscated and sold…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The controlling questions in these cases are the following: Are the acts of Congress, known as the legal tender acts, constitutional when applied to contracts made before their passage; and, secondly, are they valid as applicable to debts contracted since their enactment? These questions have been elaborately argued, and they have received from the court that consideration which their great importance- demands. ' It- would be difficult to overestimate the consequences which must follow7 our decision. They will affect the entire business of .the country, and take hold of the possible continued…
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