Norton v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The court found the following facts: I. On the 12th June, 1865, there arrived at New Orleans, on the steamer Gray Eagle, from Vicksburgh, one hundred and twenty-five bales of cotton belonging to Samuel De Bow & Oo., the claimant’s assignors in bankruptcy. At that time no shipments of cotton to New Orleans were allowed, except such as were consigned to the purchasing-agent of the Treasury.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The court found the following facts: I. On the 12th June, 1865, there arrived at New Orleans, on the steamer Gray Eagle, from Vicksburgh, one hundred and twenty-five bales of cotton belonging to Samuel De Bow & Oo., the claimant’s assignors in bankruptcy. At that time no shipments of cotton to New Orleans were allowed, except such as were consigned to the purchasing-agent of the Treasury. On the 13th June, 1865, De Bow & Oo. executed a bill of sale of all the cotton to the purchasing-agent at an expressed consideration of $9,625.98, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
The counsel for the claimant insists that the facts in this case are substantially identical with those in La Peyre's Case, (8 C. Cls. R., p. 165,) and that the decision of this court must necessarily follow that of the Supreme Court in that case. The counsel for the defendants is understood to concede the substantial identity of the facts, but to insist that the legal ground upon which the defense is now placed was not taken by the defendants’ counsel in the case of La Peyre, and probably escaped the attention of the Supreme Court when deciding that case.
The former case singularly divided…
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