Raymond v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
On the■ defendants’ Appeal. The Reporters’ statement of the cases: These cases came to a hearing in the court below, on the commissioner’s report and the motion to confirm it, on the one side, and the exceptions filed to it on the other. Where proper exceptions were taken by either side, the court took up the evidence and determined the facts irrespective of the commissioner’s report.
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On the■ defendants’ Appeal. The Reporters’ statement of the cases: These cases came to a hearing in the court below, on the commissioner’s report and the motion to confirm it, on the one side, and the exceptions filed to it on the other. Where proper exceptions were taken by either side, the court took up the evidence and determined the facts irrespective of the commissioner’s report. Where no such exceptions were taken, the court treated the facts set forth in the report as acquiesced in by the parties. After due deliberation, the court confirmed the report in part, amended it in part, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief-Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court:
The facts in these cases, as shown by the records and the findings of the Court of Claims, are as follows:
During the years 1863,1864, and 1865 large quantities of cotton were captured by the military forces of the United States and taken from the owners in the State of Mississippi. The identity of the several parcels so captured was destroyed, and the property of each owner could not be traced. A very large quantity was used by the Army of the United States for defensive purposes in the vicinity of Vicksburgh. Much of it was stolen,…
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