Lincoln v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’’s statement of the case: The plaintiff is the administrator of the estate of Joseph A. Harvey, deceased, late of Lowndes County, Miss. On April 22,1863, said Joseph A. Harvey sold to the Confederate States of America 11 bales of cotton and received therefor bonds of the said Confederate States to the face value of $10,010 and executed a bill of sale for the same.
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The Reporter’’s statement of the case: The plaintiff is the administrator of the estate of Joseph A. Harvey, deceased, late of Lowndes County, Miss. On April 22,1863, said Joseph A. Harvey sold to the Confederate States of America 11 bales of cotton and received therefor bonds of the said Confederate States to the face value of $10,010 and executed a bill of sale for the same. In May, 1865, the Secretary of the Treasury appointed Harrison Johnston as assistant special agent of the Treasury Department to collect certain cotton purchased by and then held on account of the so-called Confederate…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, Chief Justice
The claimant seeks to recover the net proceeds of 77 bales of cotton which it is alleged belonged to claimant, and were seized and sold by agents of the Federal Government subsequent to June 1, 1865, and the proceeds of the sale covered into the Treasury.
The suit is predicated upon the act of March 3, 1911, carried into the Judicial Code as section 162 and reading as follows:
“ The Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the claims of those whose property was taken subsequent to June the first, eighteen hundred and sixty7five, under the provisions of the act of Congress…
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- The Elgee Cotton CasesSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- United States v. AndersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
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