Moore v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: From the 2d day of July, 1864, to the 1st of August, 1865, William P. Moore, jr., the claimant’s testator, during his lifetime, and after his decease the claimant, as his devisee, owned .certain lands and houses in New Berne, N. C., then under the control of the military forces of the United States, which were taken charge of and leased as abandoned property by an agent of the Treasury Department, and the rents therefrom,…
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: From the 2d day of July, 1864, to the 1st of August, 1865, William P. Moore, jr., the claimant’s testator, during his lifetime, and after his decease the claimant, as his devisee, owned .certain lands and houses in New Berne, N. C., then under the control of the military forces of the United States, which were taken charge of and leased as abandoned property by an agent of the Treasury Department, and the rents therefrom, collected by said agent, amounting to $2,547.50, were paid into the United States Treasury. Previously to the 10th of…
1Opinion of the CourtKichardson, J.
No objection is raised by the defendants to the claimant’s ■rights to institute and maintain this action as the sole legatee ■ and devisee of William P. Moore, jr., deceased, who was the *378origiual owner of the property, real and personal, which is the subject of this suit. The estate of said deceased has been fully settled, and all his property and rights of action, including those involved in this proceeding, have passed to the present claimant.
The first claim is for the rent of lands and houses taken possession of and leased as abandoned property in a State in rebellion, under the provisions…
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