People v. Staples

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a statute, which relieved mortgagors of duty to pay government for no other reason than the inability of the mortgagor to pay, was a gift in violation of the Gift Clause
• invalidating statute forgiving interest due on state-owned mortgages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).