Anderson v. Ewing

Opinion op the Coükt.

THIS is an action of covenant, brought on a sealed instrument in the following words;

A contract to pay S801? ‘111 notes ^are received in ideposit in the! BranchSVI 6 Bank,’ is a contract to pay 800 paper dollars, and is not a contract to pay as many such dollars as will purchase $800 in specie.

“ For value received, I bind myself, beirs, fee. to pay Tbomas Bryan, or assigns, eight hundred dollars, on ox-before the first day of September 1820, in such bank notes as are received in deposite at that time in the Hopkinsville-Branch Bank. Whereof I have hereunto set my hand,…