¶1The defendants intestate in this case promised not to demand interest for the time the depreciated currency was offered to him in payment: and the circumstance that ho thereby avoided receiving what the law and Ihe necessity of the times then made a legal tender, and which must unavoidably have sunk to nothing in his hands, affords such a consideration to support his promise as to entire the complainant to the aid of a Court of Equity to enforce a compliance with it. 1 he injunction must therefore fee made perpetual as prayed for by complainant.
5 N.C. 157
Singleton v. Ogden
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided July 15, 1807
Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1807-07-15
Street Newbern district. On the iOth day of May, 1774, Spiers Singleton for him-?elf and Benjamin Caswell, his partner in trade, gave a bond to Samuel Caswell, then of Newbern in N. Carolina, for the penalty of Li.080, proclamation money, conditioned for the payment of Z540 like money, ontheiOthday of March ensuing ; and on or about the 23d day of Novem-her, 1774, for- himself, another bond for the penal sum of 1,2796, proclamation money, conditioned for the payment X1397 13…
Decided 1807-07-15