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Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the "Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. This was a motion, by Mr. P. Phillips to dismiss ah appeal from a decree of the Circuit ¿¡ourt of the United States in ' the Southern District of Alabama.
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Appeal from the "Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. This was a motion, by Mr. P. Phillips to dismiss ah appeal from a decree of the Circuit ¿¡ourt of the United States in ' the Southern District of Alabama. A motion to dismiss an appeal from the same decree, for the reason that it was not brought within one year from the passage of the act of March 2d, 1867,* had been made and denied at the December Term, 1869.† -.The appeal was subsequently dismissed on .another ground.‡ The ground of this present motion was that more than • five years, excluding the time of…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court. "•
The question, in the present case is, when did the rebellion begin and end ? In other words, what space of time must be considered as excepted from the operation of the statute of limitations by the war of the rebellion ?
Acts of hostility by the insurgents occurred at periods so various, and of such different degrees of importance, and in parts of the country so remote from each other, both at the commencement and the close of the late civil war, that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to say on what precise day it began or…
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