O'Keefe v. United States
United States Court of Claims
This is a claim to recover tlie net proceeds of eighteen bales of upland cotton, taken from the claimant by tlie Union authorities at Savannah, after the capture of that city, in December, 1864. The claimant is a citizen of Great Britain, domiciled in Savannah.
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This is a claim to recover tlie net proceeds of eighteen bales of upland cotton, taken from the claimant by tlie Union authorities at Savannah, after the capture of that city, in December, 1864. The claimant is a citizen of Great Britain, domiciled in Savannah. The suit is brought under the act known as the captured and abandoned property act, of March 12, 1863. To entitle the claimant to recover, he is required by that act to establish to the satisfaction of the court the following propositions, viz: 1. That he was the owner of the cotton; 2. Its seizure and sale by the Government, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtLoeing-, J.
The petitioner claims of the United States the net proceeds -of eighteen bales upland cotton, and the court finds the facts to be:
1. That the claimant' is an English subject, and in January I860, resided in the city of Savannah, in the State of Georgia, and owned and had in his possession eighteen bales of upland cotton, stored in a house numbered 148 Broughton street.
2. That the United States took possession of said cotton, by placing a military guard over it, in the house in which it was stored. That subsequently a fire broke out in the cellar in which this and other cotton was stored. That…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ennis v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1853
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