Vance v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The case was submitted upon the proofs, but the decision rests upon the allegations of the claimant in his petition, which will be found in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claim in this case was transmitted to the court under the provisions of the Bowman A ot (22 Stat. L., 485) by.the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives on the 26th day of February, 1884, and was argued by P. E. Dye, esq., of counsel for the claimant, and Lewis Cochran, esq., of counsel for the defendants.
*489The petition alleges in substance that the claimant and his now deceased partner, Robertson Topp, were in the year 1863 the owners of 170 bales of cotton, which were stored on the plantation of Mrs. Mary A. Butler, in…
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