Hepburn v. Griswold
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, the case being this: On the 20th of June, 1860, a certain Mrs. Hepburn'made a promissory note, by which she promised, to pay to Henry Griswold on the 20th of February, .1862, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty “ dollars.”
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Error to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, the case being this: On the 20th of June, 1860, a certain Mrs. Hepburn'made a promissory note, by which she promised, to pay to Henry Griswold on the 20th of February, .1862, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty “ dollars.” At the time when the note was made, as also at the time when it fell due, there was, confessedly, no lawful money of the United States, or money which could lawfully be tendered in payment of private debts, but gold and silver coin. Five days after the day when the note by its- terms fell due, that is to say, on the 25th of…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court.
The question presented for our determination by the record in this case is, whether or not the payee or assignee of a note, made before the 25th of February, 1862, is obliged by law to accept in payment United States notes, equal in nominal amount to the sum due according to its terms, when tendered by the maker or other party bound to pay it? And this requires, in the. first place, a construction of that clause of the first section of the act of Congress passed on that day, which declares the United States notes, the.issue of which was…
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