United States v. Lane
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims, the object of the suit having beeu to recover damages against the United States for an alleged breach of contract, made by -George Lane with one Risley, who was at the time the treasury agent at Norfolk, Virginia, for the purchase of the products of insurrectionary States.
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Appeal from the Court of Claims, the object of the suit having beeu to recover damages against the United States for an alleged breach of contract, made by -George Lane with one Risley, who was at the time the treasury agent at Norfolk, Virginia, for the purchase of the products of insurrectionary States. The case, which depended in part on statutes, regulations of the treasury, and a proclamation of the President, was thus: 'Acts of 1861 and 1863. By act of July 13th, 1861, section 5, “all commercial intercourse” by and between States declared in insurrection and the citizens thereof, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
delivered tifie opinion of the court.
In the view we take of this case it is unnecessary, to discuss the question — conceding the contract to be lawful— whether the actiob of the naval authorities could -be a ground of claim for damages far a bréac[i of this contract against the United States, because, in.our opinion, the'contract was unauthorized, and had no power to bind the government.
•It appears, .by the findings of the Court of Claims, that Chowan River, in North Carolina, the ’place where the cotton was purchased, was within the lines held by the insurrectionary forces, and that the…
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