Winchester v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: This case was immediately taken to the Supreme Court, where the judgment was affirmed.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: This case was immediately taken to the Supreme Court, where the judgment was affirmed. (See post, .) On account of the intricacy and obscurity of previous judicial proceedings and of the novelty and importance of the questions involved, the findings are given in full: I. The claimant is sole surviving executor of the will of John C. Jenkins, late of Adams County, in the State of Mississippi, duly approved and allowed in the probate court of said county, upon which letters testamentary were issued October 23,1855, the said Jenkins having died before that…
1DissentBiciiardsoN, J.
I concur with, all my associates in bolding that tbe claimant is' entitled to recover tbe $12,080.20 paid into tbe Treasury by tbe marshal from tbe proceeds of bis cotton captured in rebel territory, and after tbe passageof tbe Act of March 12,1863, brought into a loyal State, and in possession of an officer of tbe Navy, without having been libled previously thereto for forfeiture under tbe provisions of tbe Aot July 13,1801, § 5 (12 Stat. B., 257), nor seized by order of tbe President at any time under' tbe provisions of tbe Aot July 17, 1802, §§ 5, 6, 7 (12 Stat., 590), so much having…
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