Hicks v. Guinness

How courts have described this case

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• holding that even though payments under contract were to be made in German marks, at time of breach American company gained, as a matter of law, right to demand payment in U.S. currency
• upon breach “[t]he event has come to pass upon which your liability becomes absolute as fixed by law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).