Faw v. Marsteller

6 U.S. 10 (1804)

2 Cranch 10

FAW

v.

MARSTELLER.[*]

Supreme Court of United States.

February 14, 1804.

The circuit court decreed, that the rents which accrued during the existence of paper money should be reduced according to the scale for the time when they became payable, but that the subsequent rents should be paid in specie. From this decree Faw appealed, and the case was now argued by Swann and Mason for the appellant; and by E.J. Lee, Jones, and Key, for the appellee.

For the appellant, it was conterded.

The case, as stated by Marshall, ch. j. in delivering the opinion of the court, was as…