Haycraft v. United States

Drake, Ch. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This suit is for the recovery of the value of one hundred bales of cotton alleged to have been captured by the military forces of the United States, in April, 1863, and sold by an agent of the Treasury Department and the proceeds paid into the Treasury of the United States. .

It differs, however, from the ordinary suits instituted here for the proceeds of captured cotton, in several important particulars, as follows: 1. It was instituted on the 30th of July, 1872, nearly four years after the expiration of the period within which the Act March…