Thomas's Administrator v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The following are the facts found by the court: I. In the month of July, 1863, and for some years previous, John H. Thomas, who was then living, was owner of a plantation on the northerly side of the Yazoo Eiver, about 7 miles from Yazoo City, in the State of Mississippi, and in June, 1863, had on said plantation, and stored under a shed, 112 bales of cotton, being the cotton alleged in the petition to have been seized by military forces of the defendants. II.
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The following are the facts found by the court: I. In the month of July, 1863, and for some years previous, John H. Thomas, who was then living, was owner of a plantation on the northerly side of the Yazoo Eiver, about 7 miles from Yazoo City, in the State of Mississippi, and in June, 1863, had on said plantation, and stored under a shed, 112 bales of cotton, being the cotton alleged in the petition to have been seized by military forces of the defendants. II. The said cotton was burned and totally destroyed in June, 1863, by the forces and agents of the Confederate States, and was not…
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2Opinion of the Court · RichardsonRichardson, J.
- The vicissitudes of this case from its commencement, nearly fifteen years ago, to its close at this time are notable.
The original petition was filed August 19, 1868, on the last day allowed for filing claims under the Abandoned or Captured Property Act, March 12, 1863 (12 Stat. L., 820), Hon. Caleb Cush*685ing (since deceased) being of counsel for tbe claimant. It alleged that Mary W. Thomas, the claimant, in the month of July, 1863, was the owner and in possession of 112 bales of cotton at her residence on her plantation on Poketa Lake, in Mississippi, which was then and there seized…
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