White v. Ivey
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity in Dougherty Superior Court. Injunctions granted by Judge Richaed IT. Claek, at Chambers, October 1864. These two cases were argued together in the Supreme Court.
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In Equity in Dougherty Superior Court. Injunctions granted by Judge Richaed IT. Claek, at Chambers, October 1864. These two cases were argued together in the Supreme Court. The facts in the first case, White vs. Ivey, were as follows: Ivey, in October 1864, exhibited his bill against White, praying an injunction, and alleging that he, the complainant, was by occupation a hotel keeper, and as such, had paid to the Confederate States his registration tax and other heavy taxes; that he had rented a hotel with twelve rooms, in the city of Albany, for a term which would not expire until the 1st of…
1Opinion of the CourtLyost, J.
We concur in the judgment of the Court below, in ordering an injunction against the seizure of these buildings by the officers of the Confederate Government; and we rest our affirmance of that judgment on the ground that such seizures were not authorized by the acts of the Confederate Congress allowing impressment of the property of citizens for public use.
The act of Congress relied upon to justify this seizure, is *199that of March 26th, 1863. The first section of that act provides, “ That whenever the exigencies of any army in the field are such as to make impressment of forage, articles of…
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