Stoddart v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Tlie claimant, a loyal citizen of the United States, who gave no aid or encouragement to the rebellion, and resided within the loyal States during the full period of the war, filed his petition in this court the 28th day of March, A. D. 1868, to recover from the United States the sum of $47,673 60, being the proceeds of two hundred and sixty bales of cotton, seized and taken by the military authorities of the United States, from the store of N. W. Perry & Co., of Mobile,…
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Tlie claimant, a loyal citizen of the United States, who gave no aid or encouragement to the rebellion, and resided within the loyal States during the full period of the war, filed his petition in this court the 28th day of March, A. D. 1868, to recover from the United States the sum of $47,673 60, being the proceeds of two hundred and sixty bales of cotton, seized and taken by the military authorities of the United States, from the store of N. W. Perry & Co., of Mobile, Alabama, in May, 1865, and shipped to New York by the ship E. S. Thayer and steamer Monterey, consigned to General Stewart…
1Opinion of the Court
Milligan, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:
This action was brought to recover tbe proceeds of the sale of two hundred and sixty bales of cotton stored in tbe city of Mobile, and alleged to have been captured by tbe United States military authorities in April, 1865. In tbe argument of tbe case no serious question was made on tbe loyalty of tbe plaintiff, or tbe capture and sale of tbe cotton claimed in tbe petition. Tbe defense was chiefly rested on tbe claimant’s title to tbe cotton at tbe date of its seizure, and tbe competency of Thomas Henry, tbe agent of tbe plaintiff and principal…
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