Cutner v. United States

84 U.S. 517

21 L.Ed. 656

17 Wall. 517

CUTNER

v.

UNITED STATES.

October Term, 1873

APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case as found by that court was thus:

Cutner, a loyal citizen of the United States, resident at Savannah, Georgia, one of the States which went into rebellion, was, on the 21st of December, 1864, the owner of thirty bales of cotton. On the day just named Savannah was captured by the army of the United States. On the 23d of February, 1865, Cutner reported his cotton to the commanding officer, and it was registered, in compliance with general military orders, by the Treasury agents in…