Central Railway Co. v. George

Citations

• 32 Tex. 568

Syllabus

<p>1— Three kinds of legal tender are recognized by the laws of the United States, viz: gold coin, silver coin, and United States treasury notes, which, as respects payment of debts, are equal to each other, and all together comprise what is known to the law as money, and the legal description and measure of which is dollars and cents.</p> <p>2— In a suit for the value of certain cotton lost by the defendant, a common carrier, it was error to render judgment for gold coin. The judgment should have been rendered in dollars and cents, without designating any one of the three different kinds of money.</p>