MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court. After stating the case in the language above reported, he continued:
The contract of sale, which is the subject of consideration in this case, was made in Virginia, between citizens of that State, pending the late civil war, and with reference to notes of the Confederate States as the standard of value. These notes had, at that time, almost entirely superseded the use of coin, and they constituted the principal...
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