Stewart, Hyde & Co. v. Buard

The plaintiffs sue the defendant, Suzette Buard, on two promissory notes, each for fifteen hundred dollars, with eight per cent, per annum interest from maturity and due respectively on the first of February, 1868, and first of February, 18G9. They allege that, by a written contract, it was stipulated that if the notes be paid in United States treasury notes, it should be in the proportion of one dollar and thirty cents in currency for every dollar expressed on the face of the note. They allege that the notes were transferred to them before maturity as collaterals according to law; that the…