Mount v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
On the claimant’s Motion. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following motion was made by the attorneys of the claimant in this case: The claimant, by his counsel, Bartley & Casey, moves to amend the petition by alleging that Elijah Mount was the owner of the cotton sued for, instead of his wife, Mrs. E. E. Mount. He further begs leave to suggest the death of Elijah Mount, and to file letters of administration on his estate to William G-..
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On the claimant’s Motion. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following motion was made by the attorneys of the claimant in this case: The claimant, by his counsel, Bartley & Casey, moves to amend the petition by alleging that Elijah Mount was the owner of the cotton sued for, instead of his wife, Mrs. E. E. Mount. He further begs leave to suggest the death of Elijah Mount, and to file letters of administration on his estate to William G-.. Mount, and to substitute the said William GL Mount, administrator of Elijah Mount, deceased, as plaintiff in said case.
1Opinion of the Court
Drake, Oh. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
On the 31st of March, 1868, the claimant filed in this court her petition under the Captured and abandoned property Act, averring that she owned and possessed five bales of cotton, which were stored in her own gin-house, on the plantation owned and cultivated by her, situated on Mount’s Bayou, Issaquena County, Mississippi, and that said cotton was taken from her by United States forces in August, 1863, and turned over to an agent of the Treasury Department, and sold, and the proceeds paid into the Treasury; and for the amount of the proceeds…
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