Reynolds v. . State
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Claim against the State, filed in this Court, January 1870, and heard under Art. IV, Sec. 11, of the Constitution of the State.
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Claim against the State, filed in this Court, January 1870, and heard under Art. IV, Sec. 11, of the Constitution of the State. The subject of the claim was the value of forty-four bales of cotton, said to have been sold by the State for about $6,290 00. The case set up by the plaintiff, a citizen of Vir.ginia, was, that he had purchased the cotton during the late war, in South Carolina; that it had remained there in his possession until September 1865, when it was seized with military, force by one Mitchum; that he subsequently transferred it to Charlotte, N. 0., at which place it was taken…
1Opinion of the Court
Pearson, O. J.
We are fully satisfied,. on a perusal of the papers in the proceeding, of the correctness of the view taken in Bledsoe v. State, ante, 392, to-wit: that our “ recom-mendatory jurisdiction” in regard to claims against the State, ■does not embrace cases involving mere matters of fact, and that it was not the intention of the framers of the Constitution to impose upon the Court the labor of the trial of facts, and that the jurisdiction is confined to claims where the facts being agreed on, it was supposed an opinion of the Supreme ■Court on important questions of law, would aid the…
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