DECISION FROM THE SUPREME COURT

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LEGAL TENDER CASES, 79 U.S. 457 (1870)
79 U.S. 457 (Wall.)
LEGAL TENDER CASES.
KNOX v. LEE.
PARKER v. DAVIS.
December Term, 1870

THESE were two suits; the first a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Texas, the second an appeal from a decree in equity in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
The case in the FIRST one, Knox v. Lee, was thus: .... ( http://laws.findlaw.com/us/79/457.html )