In re Zellner

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

Tbis is a petition on behalf of Zellner, tbe relator, for a mandamus to tbe Court of Claims to compel them to allow an appeal from a decree against him in that court. Tbe case is tbis: Tbe relator was tbe owner of thirty bales of cotton, stored in a warehouse in Macon, Georgia; that on or about tbe 21st of February, 1866, a special agent of tbe Treasury Department seized and carried away tbe same, which was afterwards shipped by another agent of that Department to tbe city of New York, and there sold by Simeon Draper, an agent of tbe Government, for…