Lamar v. Browne
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This was an action of trover, brought by Lamar, the plaintiff, to recover of the defendants the value of eighteen hundred bales of cotton alleged to have been taken and converted by
*188them. The defendants justified, as agents of the United States to receive and collect abandoned and captured property, under the several acts of Congress providing therefor. Upon the trial, Lamar introduced evidence tending to show, that, in the years 1861-1864, he stored certain cotton in warehouses in the town of Thomasville, Ga.; that on June 19, 1865, a part of this cotton was his individual property, and…
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- Haycraft v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
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