Dykes's v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. In the year 1862, Benjamin B. Dykes, who instituted this action, was the reputed owner-and in possession of about 873 acres of land in and around Anderson, subsequently called Andersonville, in the State of Georgia. II.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. In the year 1862, Benjamin B. Dykes, who instituted this action, was the reputed owner-and in possession of about 873 acres of land in and around Anderson, subsequently called Andersonville, in the State of Georgia. II. Some time during’ that year, tbe Confederate States of America, so called, through their military authorities, established, near said land, a military prison for the confinement of captured Union soldiers, known as the Andersonville prison-pen. They also, at the same time,…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of the court:
The claimant seeks to recover for the use and occupation, by the defendants, of certain real estate reputed to be owned by his testator at Andersonville, G-a., adjoining the famous rebel Andersonville prison-pen, seized and appropriated by the Army of the United States engaged in the suppression of the rebellion, May, 1865, and held by order of the War Department until the spring of 1875.
At the outset he is met with an objection to the jurisdiction of the court, founded upon the provision of the Act July 4,1864 (13 Stat. L., p. 381, ch. 240, §…
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