Green v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case : I. In February, 1862, the claimant, a citizen of the United States, was domiciled in Nashville, Tenn. At that time he was indorser upon the commercial paper of the firm of Fite, Shepard & Co., a house doing business in Nashville, and he was closely connected with individual members of the firm, one of them being his son.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case : I. In February, 1862, the claimant, a citizen of the United States, was domiciled in Nashville, Tenn. At that time he was indorser upon the commercial paper of the firm of Fite, Shepard & Co., a house doing business in Nashville, and he was closely connected with individual members of the firm, one of them being his son. On the 16th February, 1862, before the capture of Nashville by the Army of the United States, but while its capture was imminent and expected, he, at the request of the firm, took a large amount of their money, consisting…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
This case presents, with unusual clearness, the question whether the Government is judicially liable for any of the war measures resorted to in the late rebellion other than the liability created by the Abandoned or captured property Act.
It may be conceded that the Government is liable, upon express contracts, to persons residing within the insurrectionary districts. Where the officers or agents of the Government entered into an agreement with a person who, for the time at least, wore the garb of a public enemy, and the Government reaped a positive benefit from the contract, while the…
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