Keith v. Clark
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
*455Mr.. Justice Miller
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in error, who was plaintiff below, sued the defendant for the sum of $40, which he had paid in lawful money under protest for taxes due the State of Tennessee, after he had tendered to the defendant that sum in the circulating notes of the Bank of Tennessee, which defendant refused to receive.
The suit was commenced before a justice of the peace, taken by appeal to the Common-Law Chancery Court of Madison County, and from there to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, and by writ of error from this court it is now before us for…
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