O'Pry v. United States

The decision in this suit arises upon a demurrer of the defendants to the plaintiff’s petition. The averments of the *112petition are substantially as follows: The plaintiff is the sole heir of John Kouns, who was the surviving partner of a firm composed by George L. Kouns and John Kouns, both deceased. On the 6th day of June, 1865, said firm was the owner of 900 bales of cotton, of which 350 bales had been raised in the State of Texas and purchased by said firm and the balance in greater part raised by it on its own plantation in the State of Louisiana. This cotton on the above date was brought…