# People ex rel. Chrystal v. Cook

> California Supreme Court · July 1, 1872 · 44 Cal. 638

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/5437837

## Case

- **Full name:** THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ex rel. PETER CHRYSTAL v. JOHN COOK, Loan Commissioners of Santa Clara County
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** July 1, 1872
- **Citations:** 44 Cal. 638
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Wallace
- **Judges:** Crockett, Rhodes, Wallace
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Wallace, C. J., dissenting:
I dissent from so much of . the opinion as holds that it is within the constitutional authority of Congress to compel creditors to receive the notes of the United States in payment of debts. The reasoning upon this question, to be found in the dissenting opinions of the Chief Justice and of Mr. Justice Field, in Knox v. Lee, 12 Wallace, S. C. U. S. 457, is not to be refuted, except upon the assumption that the legislative power of Congress is something more than that granted to it in the Federal Constitution.

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