Johnson's Administrator v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the claimant’s Motion. The Reporters’ statement of the case : The facts are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
The principles by which the court is governed m acting- upon motions for new trials, and the statutes and rules of practice applicable to them, have been so fully explained in the two opinions just read (Payan’s (Jase and Rhine’s Case, ante) that it is not necessary to repeat them here. It only remains to apply them to the circumstances of this case.
At the former trial the facts found were that the claimant’s intestate was the owner of 225 bales of cotton at Sabine Pass, in Texas, in the year 1805. Of these, 30 bales were shipped to New Orleans, where 28 of them were seized by a Treasury…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Johnson's v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1878