Klein v. United States

The general question in this case is whether or not the proviso relating to suits for the proceeds of abandoned and captured property in the Court of Claims, contained in the appropriation act of July 12,1870, debars the defendant in error from recovering, as administrator of Victor F. Wilson, deceased, the proceeds of certain cotton belonging to the decedent, which came into possession of the agents of the Treasury Department as captured or abandoned property, and the proceeds of which were paid by them according to law into the Treasury of the United States.

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