Green v. United States
United States Court of Claims
This action was commenced originally by Estelle G. P. Green. Subsequently, by an order of this court, William H. Green, the husband of Estelle, was' made a party claimant, and the suit is now prosecuted in the joint names of husband and wife, who are residents of Charleston. The cotton was purchased in one lot of N. II. Guyton, and was paid for by Mrs. Greene, with her own money.
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This action was commenced originally by Estelle G. P. Green. Subsequently, by an order of this court, William H. Green, the husband of Estelle, was' made a party claimant, and the suit is now prosecuted in the joint names of husband and wife, who are residents of Charleston. The cotton was purchased in one lot of N. II. Guyton, and was paid for by Mrs. Greene, with her own money. The evidence clearly establishes that Mrs. Greene and her mother were loyal Union women, and were active in that loyalty, not only aiding to relieve the sufferings of our Union prisoners, but helping to conceal those…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
The suit was brought by a married woman to recover the proceeds of captured property alleged to have been hers in her own right. After the period for bringing such actions had elapsed, she joined her husband as co-claimant, and filed an amended petition. The defendants plead the limitation of the statute.
The amended petition alleges, like the first, that the wife u toas the owner and in possession of forty-seven bales of sea-island cotton, purchased with money received from her mother, stored in the city of Charleston, on the premises of your petitioners and it seeks to recover the proceeds…
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