Walker's Executors v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following facts were found by the court: I. Before the year 1805 John Scott, who was chief agent of produce-loan for Alabama and East Mississippi of the Oonfed-erate States of America, so called, purchased 3,405 bales of cotton. for the Confederate government, in lots, at different times and of different planters, (among other purchases by him,) in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, and in each purchase took a receipt,…
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following facts were found by the court: I. Before the year 1805 John Scott, who was chief agent of produce-loan for Alabama and East Mississippi of the Oonfed-erate States of America, so called, purchased 3,405 bales of cotton. for the Confederate government, in lots, at different times and of different planters, (among other purchases by him,) in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, and in each purchase took a receipt, certificate, and agreement from the planter, in the following form: “State oe Mississippi, “ County of-, town or post-office-;…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
This action was commenced by petition filed August 17,1867, under the Abandoned or captured property Act, March 12, 1863, (12 Stat. L., 820,) to recover the proceeds of 3,405 bales of cotton, alleged to have' belonged to Samuel P. Walker, the claimants’ testator, when they were seized by an agent of the Treasury Department in Alabama and Mississippi, in 1865, sent to Eew York, sold, and the proceeds covered into the United States Treasury. On the 20th of November, 1876, an amended petition was filed, joining the administrator of Robertson Topp as a party with the executors of the original…
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