Briggs v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. The court stated the case as follows: This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of Claims, dismissing the petition of the ■ appellant, praying, judgment for the amount of the proceeds of certain cotton, the property of his testator, which was seized by the forces of the United States and sold and the proceeds paid into the Treasury.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. The court stated the case as follows: This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of Claims, dismissing the petition of the ■ appellant, praying, judgment for the amount of the proceeds of certain cotton, the property of his testator, which was seized by the forces of the United States and sold and the proceeds paid into the Treasury. The facts of the case, briefly stated, are as follows: • Charles S. Morehead was a citizen, of Kentucky at the breaking out of the late civil war. He was a man of distinction in that State, and had once been its governor. He was…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice • Field,
having stated' tbe case, delivered tbe opinion of-the court.
Though at tbe time tbe sale, or assignment, as it is termed in tbe act of Congress, was made of tbe cotton on the plantations in Mississippi, or to be raised thereon during tbe year 1862, tbe late civil war was flagrant, there was no rule-of law • arising from tbe existence of hostilities- between the different sections of tbe country which in any respect impaired tbe validity of tbe transaction. Both parties Avere then residents and citizens of Kentucky, and no agreement ivas made for the transportation and…
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