Rice v. United States

(21 C. Cls. R., 413; not reported in U. S. R.)

A private aot provides that this court “may talcs jurisdiction under the provisions ” of the Abandoned or Captured Property Act of the claims-of R. E. for property alleged to have been captured, etc. The petition in the present case alleges that R. E. was the owner of certain captured cotton; that the proceeds thereof are in the Treasury; that R. E., prior to the private act, was adjudged a bankrupt; and that under the assignment in bankruptcy the claims became and are vested in his assignee. The petition was not filed until the. 17th February,…