Medway v. United States
United States Court of Claims
This is a cotton case? in which the plaintiff claims the proceeds, of one hundred and thirty bales, seized at Wilmington, North Carolina. 1. As to ownership, seizure, and shipment. From July until November, 1804, 'the plaintiff purchased cotton, in various quantities, from different parties, which was stored on the west bank of the Cape Fear River, opposite the city of Wilmington.
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This is a cotton case? in which the plaintiff claims the proceeds, of one hundred and thirty bales, seized at Wilmington, North Carolina. 1. As to ownership, seizure, and shipment. From July until November, 1804, 'the plaintiff purchased cotton, in various quantities, from different parties, which was stored on the west bank of the Cape Fear River, opposite the city of Wilmington. It was under the care of a man named Knox, since deceased, who was kindly disposed towards the plaintiff in consequence of some acts of benevolence shown by her to his family, during the prevalence of the yellow…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
This is an action brought under the Abandoned or captured property aet, to recover $100,000 for one hundred and thirty bales of cotton captured at Wilmington, North Carolina.
It is one of those extraordinary cases where evidence apparently truthful and incontrovertible is arrayed against evidence apparently truthful ’and incontrovertible; where the facts established on the one side are utterly irreconcilable with the facts established on the other side; and yet where it strains our credulity to believe either statement to be false, notwithstanding that we believe the other to be true.
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