“ United States Supreme Court
75 U.S. 639
Broderick's Executor v. Magraw
Magraw preferred a claim by petition in the Probate Court of the city of San Francisco, upon a note made by Broderick to the petitioner at New York, on the 1st of July, 1858. Broderick dying, his executor defended the suit.
The defence set up by the executor was a tender of the amount due in United States notes.
To this it was answered that the executor had collected the debts due to the estate in coin, and was bound, as trustee, to pay the coin thus collected to the creditors ”