Hintrager v. Bates

Wright, Ch. J.

*1751. Treasury notes: constitutional law. *174Plaintiff, in 1861, at a tax sale by the treasurer of Dubuque county, bought certain parcels of *175realesta1:e for the revenue due and owing thereon for previous years, and afterwards, in 1862 and ^863, paid the taxes subsequently assessed on the same. On the 3d of July, 1863, the proper party paid the necessary amount, to redeem these lands, to the defendant, as clerk of the District Court, in “legal tender United States treasury notes, issued by virtue of an act of Congress, approved July 16, 1862.” Plaintiff insists that the clerk had no…