Minor v. United States
United States Court of Claims
This is an action brought to recover the proceeds of the sale of 354 hogsheads of sugar, 900 barrels of molasses, and 523 molasses barrels, the property of the claimant, taken from his plantations, Hollywood and Southdowii, in the parish of Terre-bonne, State of Louisiana, during the fall and winter of 1862 and 1863, by the United States military authorities, then in possession of that section of the country, and which property was sold by said authority, and the proceeds…
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This is an action brought to recover the proceeds of the sale of 354 hogsheads of sugar, 900 barrels of molasses, and 523 molasses barrels, the property of the claimant, taken from his plantations, Hollywood and Southdowii, in the parish of Terre-bonne, State of Louisiana, during the fall and winter of 1862 and 1863, by the United States military authorities, then in possession of that section of the country, and which property was sold by said authority, and the proceeds paid into the Treasury of the United States. Through the returns made b3T the War Department in this case, supported as it…
1Opinion of the Court
Draee, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
In November, 1862, Major General Butler, United States Volunteers, commanding at New Orleans the Department of the Gulf, ordered a sequestration of all the property in all that part •of the State of Louisiana lying west of the Mississippi Biver, except the parishes of Plaquemines and Jefferson, and appointed a commission of military officers to carry out said order.
Among the powers conferred on said commission -was the *397power to work, for account of the United States, such plantations as were deserted by their owners or were held by disloyal…
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