Case Name: MURPHY v. CAMAC
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1822-10
Citations: 17 F. Cas. 1033
Docket Number: 
Parties: MURPHY v. CAMAC.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 17
Pages: 1033–1033

Head Matter:
Case No. 9,948.
MURPHY v. CAMAC.
[4 Wash. C. C. 307.]
Circuit Court, D. Pennsylvania.
Oct. Term, 1822.
Judgment — Sounding in Foreign Money — Rate of Exchange.
Judgment confessed, with liberty to the defendant at a future term to prove discounts. The judgment being for sterling money, the exchange is to be settled as of the day when the judgment was confessed.
[Originally published from the MSS. of Hon. Bushrod Washington. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, under the supervision of Richard Peters, Jr., Esq.]

Opinion:
Judgment was confessed in this case for $1100, Irish sterling, at the November term 1S20 [see Case No. 2,226], with liberty to prove any discounts at a future session of the court. The plaintiff now admitted that the defendant was entitled to a credit against the judgment to the amount of 8-, and the only question submitted to the court was, whether the rate of exchange should be settled as of the day when the judgment- was confessed, or as of the present time. The court decided, that the rate of exchange when the judgment was confessed ought to govern.