Cofer v. United States

On March 6, 1888, the Committee on War Claims of the House of Bepresentatives, under the Bowman Act, referred to the court “the claim of Jane Cofer, of Marshall County, Miss.,” for stores and supplies taken, as it is alleged, in the county of Oxford, in the State of Mississippi, for the use of the Army of the United States during the late war. The claim was filed by petitioner with the Commissioners of Claims under the act of March 3,1871, in three petitions, in which it is alleged that “her husband was the owner of said claim” and “that she is the sole owner of said claim.” The claim was…