New York & Pennsylvania Co. v. Davis

DICKINSON, District Judge.

This motion is urged on nine different grounds. The approach by which one not familiar with the business of international freight shipments nor with its nomenclature must reach the questions of law which arise is doubtless painfully academic to those who know the subject. Notwithstanding this, there is no other mode of approach for the uninformed mind.

The first act of Congress (Act April 2, 1792, § 20, 1 Stat. 250 [Comp. St. § 6535]) by which our monetary system was established provided that our “money of account” should be “expressed” in words which by custom have…