WILMINGTON, ETC. R.R. CO. v. KING, EX'R.


91 U.S. 3 (____)

WILMINGTON AND WELDON RAILROAD COMPANY v. KING, EXECUTOR.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Submitted on printed argument by Mr. J.M. Carlisle and Mr. J.D. McPherson for the plaintiff in error. No counsel appeared for the defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

The contract between the defendant and the plaintiff's testatrix, upon which the present action was brought, was made in North Carolina during the war. By its terms, the wood purchased by the railroad company was to be paid for in Confederate currency. Contracts thus payable, not designed in their origin to aid the insurrectionary government, are not invalid between the parties. It was so held in the first case...

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