Britton v. Aymar & Brayant

It appears that in December, 1865, the plaintiff was in possession, claiming to be owner of a quantity of cotton, at Camden, in the State of Arkansas; that nine hundred and twenty-five bales thereof were there seized by O. H. Burbridge, an agent of the Treasury Department of the United States, and by him shipped to New Orleans by the steamboats Alabama and May Bruner; that upon its arrival in New Orleans, in January, 1866, it was sequestered by plaintiff in a suit begun by him in the United States Circuit Court against Bur-bridge, as an officer of the government; that, in virtue of the writ…