Juilliard v. Greenman

Juilliard v. Greenman
Juilliard v. Greenman
	Supreme Court of the United States
Submitted January 22, 1884; Decided March 3, 1884
Full case name	Juilliard v. Greenman
Citations	110 U.S. 421 (more) 4 S. Ct. 122; 28 L. Ed. 204; 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1712
Holding
	The Legal Tender Acts are constitutional and apply in peacetime.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field; Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan; William B. Woods · Stanley Matthews; Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford
Case opinions
Majority	Gray, joined by Waite, Miller, Bradley, Harlan, Woods, Matthews, Blatchford
Dissent	Field

Juilliard v. Greenman, 110 U.S. 421 (1884), was a Supreme Court of the United States case in which issuance of greenbacks as legal tender in peacetime was challenged. The Legal Tender Acts of 1862 and 1863 were upheld.

Augustus D. Juilliard sold and delivered 100 bales of cotton to Thomas S. Greenman for $5,122.90. Greenman tendered $5,100 in United States legal tender notes and the rest in coin, but Juilliard would not accept the U.S. notes. The tendered notes were originally issued under an act of Congress passed on February 25, 1862, and March 3, 1863, during the Civil War. An act of May 31, 1878 provided to "forbid the further retirement of United States legal tender notes."

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