Gooch v. United States
United States Court of Claims
0% the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. In the year 1858 the claimants were married, in the State of Alabama, and thereafter lived in Noxubee County, Missisippi, where they still reside. II.
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0% the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. In the year 1858 the claimants were married, in the State of Alabama, and thereafter lived in Noxubee County, Missisippi, where they still reside. II. Before their marriage they signed and sealed a marriage contract, which was proved before the judge of the probate court of Madison County, Alabama, and recorded in his office on the 19th of October, 1858, and was recorded also in the office of the clerk of the chancery court in and for the county of Noxubee, Mississippi, on…
1Opinion of the Court
DkA-KB, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case was argued at great length on points which we do not feel called upon to decide, because, however we might rule on them, the judgment must be controlled by other considerations.
The petition having been filed nearly five years after the suppression of the rebellion, the case is not one tinder the Abandoned and captured property Act (12 Stat. L., 820).
The case rests wholly on the position that, an agent of the Treasury Department having taken the cotton of the claimant, Mary Ann Gooch, and the cotton having been converted by another…
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