Latham's and Deming's Appeals

76 U.S. 145

19 L.Ed. 771

19 L.Ed. 772

9 Wall. 145

LATHAM'S AND DEMING'S APPEALS.

December Term, 1869

THESE were two appeals from the Court of Claims, in suits against the United States. They had been passed at former terms, and early at this one. It being alleged by Mr. Hoar, Attorney-General, that they involved a question of public interest to wit, the legal tender question—which he desired, for some reasons which he stated, to have passed on anew, he asked the court to fix a day at this term for argument upon them, it being stated by him that it was, in his opinion, most desirable that the matter…