Hastings v. White

This was an action of debt, brought in the Randolph circuit court. The case was appealed from a judgment there to this court, and decided at the December term, 1866. 24 Ark. 269. The judgment in the circuit court was there reversed, and the* case remanded with instructions to sustain the demurrer to appellee’s second plea, wherein he set up that the note was to be discharged in Confederate money. In the meantime, the General Assembly passed “An act for the relief of persons bound by contract for the payment of Confederate money, or other paper currency,” approved March 5, 1867.

The court below…