United States v. Gillis
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims. This suit was brought June 11, 1867, in the court below, by Thomas H. Gillis, in his own name, to récover the proceeds of one hundred and eight bales of cotton seized under the Abandoned and Captured Property Act of .March 12, 1868, as the property $ of John H. Ryan, at Charleston, S. C., in March,. 1865, by the military forces of the United States.
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Appeal from the Court of Claims. This suit was brought June 11, 1867, in the court below, by Thomas H. Gillis, in his own name, to récover the proceeds of one hundred and eight bales of cotton seized under the Abandoned and Captured Property Act of .March 12, 1868, as the property $ of John H. Ryan, at Charleston, S. C., in March,. 1865, by the military forces of the United States. The Court of Claims found the following facts: — -1. In March, 1865, one John H. Ryan, of Charleston, S. C., was the owner of one hundred and three bales of upland cotton and five bales of sea-island cotton, which…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The plaintiff seeks to recover in this action the proceeds of the sale of. one hundred and eight' bales of cotton, which, in March, 1865, were the property of John H. Ryan, of Charleston, S. C. During that month the cotton’ was there taken by the military officers of the United • States, as directed' by the Captured and Abandoned Property Act, transported to New York and sold, and the net proceeds of the sale have been covered into the treasury. The. plaintiff, as administratrix of Thomas H. Gilfis, now asserts a right to recover the proceeds by Virtue of. an alleged assignment of the claim…
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