Schlesinger v. United States

Casey, C. J.,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

These claimants, between November, 1847, and July, 1854, imported into tbe United States, at tbe ports of Boston and New York, a large quantity of iron and steel, from tbe kingdom of Sweden. They aver, in their petition, that tbe iron and steel so imported were invoiced in Sweden, in tbe paper currency issued by tbe State Bank of Sweden, and known as the “ Rix daler Banco,” and recognized as legal currency by the laws of that kingdom, with a fixed legal value; that it was a component part of tbe specie dollar of that country — two and two-thirds…