Legal Opinion
In re Mansfield
District Court, D. Louisiana
Decided July 1, 1872PublishedCited by 2 opinions
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1Opinion of the Court
DURELL, District Judge.
On the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, a suit entitled “U. S. v. The Rob Roy” [Case No. 16,179,] was instituted in the then United States district court for the Eastern district of Louisiana, wherein it was sought to forfeit said steamboat and cargo of one thousand one hundred and forty bales of cotton as enemies’ property, because said property had been sought for, obtained, and brought on board said steamboat from within territory held in occupation by armed enemies of the United States, “declared to be in a state of insurrection.” The boat…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Pike v. McDonaldSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1851
- Holbrook v. FossSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1847
- Oakey v. MurphySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1846
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3Cited by2 opinions
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