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HEPBURN v. GRISWOLD

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75 U.S. 603 (1870)

8 Wall. 603

19 L.Ed. 513

HEPBURN, v. GRISWOLD.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 7, 1870.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was first argued at the Term of December, 1867, upon printed briefs submitted by Mr. Preston for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Griswold contra.

Mr. B.R. Curtis (counsel for the plaintiff in error, in Willard v. Tayloe), and by Mr. Evarts, Attorney-General, for the United States, in support of the provision, and by Mr. Clarkson N. Potter (of counsel for the defendant in error in this case).

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...

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