Winchester v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: This case was immediately taken to the Supreme Court, where the judgment was affirmed.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: This case was immediately taken to the Supreme Court, where the judgment was affirmed. (See post, .) On account of the intricacy and obscurity of previous judicial proceedings and of the novelty and importance of the questions involved, the findings are given in full: I. The claimant is sole surviving executor of the will of John C. Jenkins, late of Adams County, in the State of Mississippi, duly approved and allowed in the probate court of said county, upon which letters testamentary were issued October 23,1855, the said Jenkins having died before that…
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, J.
On the 18th of February, 1863, the claimant was in possession of a plantation in Mississippi, on the river, between Vicksburg and the mouth of the Bed Biver. It had belonged to his testator, and had been left by the will in the occupancy of the executor. As executor, he was the owner of 168 bales of cotton then on the estate. On that day this cotton was seized by the naval forces of the United States for purposes of naval defense, and was taken to Johnson’s Landing, below Vicksburg, hauled across land to Young’s Landing, and there, by order of Admiral Porter, in command of the Mississippi…
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