Gavinzel v. Crump

APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. George Gavinzel, M.D., a Swiss, resident in Richmond, Virginia, on the 20th of November, 1863, the rebellion being then flagrant, and 'Confederate notes,' as they were called–that is to say, notes issued by the rebel confederacy–being the only currency common in Richmond, agreed to lend to Robert Crump, a resident, like himself, of Richmond, and whose family physician he was, the sum of $3260 in the said notes; the notes, at the time, having become so far depreciated that the $3260 lent in them were worth in gold but $204. Gavinzel was at this time contemplating leaving the country for Europe, it being, however, a matter of extreme difficulty to pass through the rebel lines.