G. A. Le More & Co. v. United States

The bill proposing an appropriation for the payment of the claim in' this case was referred to the court under the act of March 3, 1887 (1 Supp. R. S.,' 559), by resolution of the United States Senate July 17,1897.

*485The claimants appeared and filed their petition herein, averring in part and in substance that they are citizens of the Republic of France, where they resided during the late civil Avar;

That in April, 1864, the naval forces of the United States seized 830 bales of cotton belonging to them and carried the same to Cairo, Ill.; that said cotton Avas sold by the Government and the…