United States v. Winchester
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The claimant is the surviving executor of the will of John C. Jenkins, who died in 1855, leaving four minor children, and possessed of a plantation in the State of Mississippi, on the Mississippi River, above Vicksburg. By directions in the will, the plantation was to be cultivated by the representatives of the estate for the benefit of the testator’s children.
On the 18th of February, 1863, there was on this plantation belonging to the estate and raised thereon according to-'the provisions of the will, a quantity of cotton, one hundred and sixty-eight bales of which were on that day seized by…
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