Glover v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of tbe case : Tbe following are tbe facts of tbis case as found by tbe court: I. On tbe 13tb of .March, 1863, a lot in tbe town of Beaufort, designated as lot A, in block 57, on tbe United States direct-tax commissioners’ plat of said town, was sold by said commissioners under tbe United States direct tax acts to satisfy a tax assessed against it amounting, with, a penalty and interest, to $89.20. At or about the same time a plantation known as…
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The Reporters' statement of tbe case : Tbe following are tbe facts of tbis case as found by tbe court: I. On tbe 13tb of .March, 1863, a lot in tbe town of Beaufort, designated as lot A, in block 57, on tbe United States direct-tax commissioners’ plat of said town, was sold by said commissioners under tbe United States direct tax acts to satisfy a tax assessed against it amounting, with, a penalty and interest, to $89.20. At or about the same time a plantation known as Whitehall, and containing 300 acres, was sold by the said commissioners under the said acts to satisfy a tax assessed against…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldon, J.
This is a proceeding to recover, under the provisions of the Act of Mar eh 2,1891, chapter 496 (26 Stat. L., 822), compensation for certain lands sold in the State of South Carolina under said act, and involves the question as to who is entitled to recover, the mortgageor or mortgagee.
Prior to the war Benjamin B. Bythewood, then the owner of the property in question, mortgaged it to Mrs. Catharine B. Yerdier to secure a loan of $5,000. Mrs. Yerdier died intes- ' tate, and all her property descended to her sister, Elvira Glover, who died intestate in July, 1865, leaving as her distributees her…
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