Juilliard v. Greenman
1884 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Juilliard v. Greenman, 110 U.S. 421 (1884), was a Supreme Court of the United States case in which issuance of greenbacks as legal tender in peacetime was challenged. The Legal Tender Acts of 1862 and 1863 were upheld.
Juilliard v. Greenman | |
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Submitted January 22, 1884 Decided March 3, 1884 | |
Full case name | Juilliard v. Greenman |
Citations | 110 U.S. 421 (more) 4 S. Ct. 122; 28 L. Ed. 204; 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1712 |
Holding | |
The Legal Tender Acts are constitutional and apply in peacetime. | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Gray, joined by Waite, Miller, Bradley, Harlan, Woods, Matthews, Blatchford |
Dissent | Field |
Augustus D. Juilliard sold and delivered 100 bales of cotton to Thomas S. Greenman[1] for $5,122.90. Greenman tendered $5,100 in United States legal tender notes and the rest in coin, but Juilliard would not accept the U.S. notes. The tendered notes were originally issued under an act of Congress passed on February 25, 1862, and March 3, 1863, during the Civil War. An act of May 31, 1878 provided to "forbid the further retirement of United States legal tender notes."