Goodman v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: _ The following are the facts as found by the court: I. In December, 18G1, the claimant was owner of eighteen bales of sea-island cotton, raised on his plantation on the island of Saint Helena, Beaufort District, South Carolina, during the summer of 1861. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: _ The following are the facts as found by the court: I. In December, 18G1, the claimant was owner of eighteen bales of sea-island cotton, raised on his plantation on the island of Saint Helena, Beaufort District, South Carolina, during the summer of 1861. II. Upon the conquest of the adjacent country, after the capture of Port Boyal, in 1861, all the cotton in the neighborhood of Hilton Head and Beaufort was seized and taken possession of by officers of the Army and Treasury of the United States, sent to New York, sold by the Treasury agent, and the net…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:
‘The single question presented by this case is Avhether tbe proceeds, now in tbe Treasury, of cotton Avhich Avas captured anterior to tbe Abandoned or captured property Act (12 Stat. L'., 820) can be recovered under the provisions of that statute.
To some extent this question has been answered by former decisions, Avberein it has been held that tbe Act in-addition, áse., *5632d July, 1864 (12 Stat. L., 375), carried, back tbe abandoned or captured property act, and gave to it, to- a certain extent, a retroactive effect. But tlie act in addition does not…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. PadelfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
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