Court Opinion

ID: 9416827
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 19:56:44.057317+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:21:33.177433
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice BRADLEY,
dissenting:
I dissent from the opinion of the court in this case for reasons stated in my opinion delivered in the cases of Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis.* In all cases where the contract is to pay a certain sum of money of the United States, in whatever phraseology that money may be described (except cases specially exempted by law), I hold that the legal tender acts make the treasury notes a legal tender. Only in those cases in which gold and silver are stipulated for as bullion can they be demanded in specie, like any other chattel. Contracts for specie made since the legal tender acts went into operation, when gold became a commodity subject to ' market prices, may die regarded as contracts for bullion. But all contracts for money made before the acts were passed must, in my judgment, be regarded as on the same platform. No difficulty can arise in this view of the caso in sustaining all proper transactions for the purchase and sale of gold coin.