Stark v. Coffin

The facts of these cases are agreed by the parties. On the 8th of May 1862 Nathaniel W. Coffin borrowed of Wiliam Stark four thousand dollars in paper money of the United States and bank bills, and executed and delivered to him a mortgage of a' tract of land in Dorchester, with condition that upon the payment of “ the sum of four thousand dollars in gold coin, or its equivalent value in current money, in three years from the day of the date hereof, with interest on said sum at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable in the same funds semi-annually in advance,” the mortgage, as well as a…