Burwell v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The grounds of the motion will be found in the opinion of the court. The following fact, which did not appear on the face of the petition, was introduced by stipulation: That Armistead Burwell left the State of Mississippi and the Confederate territory and came within the Union lines in the early summer of 1861, and did not return within the enemy’s territory until after the seizure of the sugar, if at all.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The grounds of the motion will be found in the opinion of the court. The following fact, which did not appear on the face of the petition, was introduced by stipulation: That Armistead Burwell left the State of Mississippi and the Confederate territory and came within the Union lines in the early summer of 1861, and did not return within the enemy’s territory until after the seizure of the sugar, if at all. It is clear that this case was not “pending’’when the Bowman Act was passed within the meaning of the first section of that act, and also that this…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claim in this case was referred to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives, May 17, 1884, under the provisions of the Bowman Act (1883, March 3, ch. 116, 22 Stat. L., 485). On the 12th day of June, 1884, the claimant filed her petition, in which she alleged, in substance, that she was the executrix of Armistead Burwell, deceased, who in the year 1863, at Vicksburg, Miss., was the owner of 135 hogsheads of sugar, weighing 1,000 pounds each, and 14 boxes sugar, weighing 400 pounds each, which were taken…
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