Sprott v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims. The act known as the Captured and Abandoned Property Act, passed March 12th, 1863,* providing for “ the collection of abandoned property, &c., in the insurrectionary districts within the United States,” enacts that any person claiming to have boon the owner of any such abandoned or captured property may, within a time specified in the act, prefer his .claim to the proceeds thereof in the Court of Claims, and on proof to the satisfaction of…
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Appeal from the Court of Claims. The act known as the Captured and Abandoned Property Act, passed March 12th, 1863,* providing for “ the collection of abandoned property, &c., in the insurrectionary districts within the United States,” enacts that any person claiming to have boon the owner of any such abandoned or captured property may, within a time specified in the act, prefer his .claim to the proceeds thereof in the Court of Claims, and on proof to the satisfaction of the court: (1) of his ownership; (2) of his right to the proceeds thereof; and. (3) that he has never given any aid or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The Court of Claims, upon the facts which it found, decided as-conclusions of law—
1. That the government of the Confederate States was an unlawful assemblage without corporate power to take, hold, or convey a valid, title to property, real or personal.
2. That the claimant was 'chargeable with notice of the treasonable intent of the ‘sale by* the Confederate government, aud that the transaction was forbidden.,by the laws of ■the United States, and wholly void, so that the claimant acquired no title to the property which is the subject of suit.,-Ve do not think it necessary to say anything in…
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