Montgomery v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Tlie claimant is a British subject, friendly to the United States, and never gave aid or comfort to the rebellion; was domiciled at New Orleans, for commercial purposes, long anterior to the war of the rehellion, under the protection guaranteed by the treaties between the United States and Great Britain, of 3d July, 1815, 20th of October, 1818, and August 6,1827; that claimant, on the 17th July, 1862, took the oath of allegiance required by General Butler’s Order No. 41, and…
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Tlie claimant is a British subject, friendly to the United States, and never gave aid or comfort to the rebellion; was domiciled at New Orleans, for commercial purposes, long anterior to the war of the rehellion, under the protection guaranteed by the treaties between the United States and Great Britain, of 3d July, 1815, 20th of October, 1818, and August 6,1827; that claimant, on the 17th July, 1862, took the oath of allegiance required by General Butler’s Order No. 41, and his proclamation of May 6,1862; that, pursuing his avocations as a merchant, and in the exercise of his customary…
1Opinion of the Court
Casey, Oh. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
Leo L. Johnson, in 'the year 1862, was a cotton planter, residing in the State of Arkansas, within the insurrectionary lines. He owned a sugar plantation in the parish of Lafourche, in the State of Louisiana, called the “Webster place.” J. W. Burbridge & Co., merchants of New Orleans, had been his factors. He was indebted to them for money and supplies to the amount of $130,000. New Orleans was captured by the combined land and naval forces, under General Butler and Admiral Farragut, respectively, in the latter end of April, 1862. That city was…
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