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Case No. 10,984.
    PERKINS v. BECK.
    [4 Cranch. C. C. 68.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    May Term, 1830.
    Tender — Not Exact Amount — Chance Asked FOR.
    A tender of money upon condition of receiving change, and a receipt in full for rent, is not a legal tender.
    [Cited in Appeal of Forest Oil Co., 118 Pa. St. 140, 12 Atl. 442.]
    
      Trespass for distraining for more rent- than was due. The plaintiff [Caleb Perkins] offered •evidence to prove that before the distress he -offered to pay the landlord [Joseph W. Beck] -$G0, if he would give him change (the rent due being $54.19, and a receipt in full for rent.
   THE COURT

(MORSELL, Circuit Judge, absent) decided that it was not a legal tender.