Legal Opinion
Francis v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 22, 1867PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
72 U.S. 338
18 L.Ed. 603
5 Wall. 338
FRANCIS
v.
UNITED STATES.
December Term, 1866
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri.
The record showed a libel of information against certain bales of cotton marked C. S. A., as belonging to persons in insurrection against the United States, and the confiscation of which was demanded under the act of 6th August, 1861, entitled 'An act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes.' [For the sake or distinction this case was numbered 939.] The act just referred to provides (by its third section, which indicates the…
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