Griswold v. Hepburn

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion on the codrt — JUDGE WILLIAMS DissEnuna:

The only question involved in this appeal is the constitutional validity of so much of the congressional statute of the 25th of February, 1862, as enacted that “ United States treasury notes (authorized by it) shall also he lawful money, and a legal *22tender in payment of all debts, public and private, in the United States.”

A solution of the grave and apparently difficult problem now, for the first time, presented for the consideration of this court, has been attempted by several of the State tribunal's,, whose…