Pargoud v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims. Pargoud filed a claim in the court below to recover under the Abandoned and Captured Property Act, the proceeds of certain cotton. This act, as by reference to its provisions, on page 151, supra, will be. seen, makes “proof that the claimant had never given aid or comfort to the late rebellion” a prerequisite to recovery. Pargoud’s petition, however, averred no loyalty at all.
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Appeal from the Court of Claims. Pargoud filed a claim in the court below to recover under the Abandoned and Captured Property Act, the proceeds of certain cotton. This act, as by reference to its provisions, on page 151, supra, will be. seen, makes “proof that the claimant had never given aid or comfort to the late rebellion” a prerequisite to recovery. Pargoud’s petition, however, averred no loyalty at all. On the contrary, it set forth in the first sentence of it “ that he was guilty of participating in the rebellion against the United States,” adding, however, “that he had been duly and…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
now gave the judgmentof theeourt.
We have recently decided, in the case of Armstrong v. United States, * that, the President’s proclamation of December 25th, 1868, granting pardon and amnesty unconditionally and without reservation to all who participated, directly or indirectly, in the late rebellion, relieves claimants of captured and abandoned property from proof of adhesion to the United States during the late civil war. It was unnecessary, therefore, to prove such adhesion or personal pardon for taking part in the rebellion against the United States.
The judgment of the…
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