Effinger v. Kenney
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE, OF VIRG-INIA. This case came from the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. It was brought in one of the Circuit Courts of that State to enforce a vendor’s lien claimed by James Kenney, the plaintiff below, defendant in error here, as trustee of one Allen C. Bryan, for the unpaid portion of the purchase money - of certain real estate sold to Jacob P. Effinger, the defendant below and plaintiff in error here.
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IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE, OF VIRG-INIA. This case came from the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. It was brought in one of the Circuit Courts of that State to enforce a vendor’s lien claimed by James Kenney, the plaintiff below, defendant in error here, as trustee of one Allen C. Bryan, for the unpaid portion of the purchase money - of certain real estate sold to Jacob P. Effinger, the defendant below and plaintiff in error here. The material facts of the case were these: On the 7th of January, 1861, Allen C. Bryan and wife ¡conveyed all their estate, real and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
After stating the case in the language above reported, he continued:
The contract of sale, which is the subject of consideration in this case, was made in Virginia,- between citizens of that State, pending the late civil war, and with reference to notes of the Confederate States as the standard of value. These notes had, at that time, almost entirely superseded the use of coin, and they constituted the principal currency within those States. Not only the ordinary purchases of the necessaries of life, but contracts of every description, which were to be performed there, were made with reference…
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