Waples v. United States

In March, 1865, the plaintiff purchased for the sum of <$7,40,0 certain, real property in New Orleans at a sale upon a decree rendered by the District Court of the United States in . proceedings for its confiscation under the act of July 17th, 1862, and subsequently obtained a deed of the property from the marshal. The proceedings were instituted in the usual form by a libel of information filed on the 7th of August, 1862, by the district attorney of the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of the United States, against ten lots of ground alleged to be the property of Charles M. Conrad.…