Lámar v. McCulloch
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was an action of trover, originally brought by Gazaway B. Lamar against Hugh McCulloch, in the Supreme Court of New York, in September, 1873, and removed into the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, by the defendant.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was an action of trover, originally brought by Gazaway B. Lamar against Hugh McCulloch, in the Supreme Court of New York, in September, 1873, and removed into the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, by the defendant. The declaration was framed to recover $150,280, as the value of 578 bales of cotton, known as the Thomasville cotton, and $110,760, .as the value of 426 other bales of cotton, known as the Florida cotton. The suit was afterwards discontinued as to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
After stating the facts in the language above reported, he continued:
The foregoing written documents show the connection of the defendant with the case. Mr. Cabell’s application or petition of November 16, 1865, claimed compensation for having collected or secured cotton, cedar timber, and cattle. It enumerated the property. The defendant, in his letter of November 17, 1865, to Mr.- Cabell, refers to it all as “captured property,” but says that as none of it had been actually placed in the possession of any agent of the Treasury Department, or removed from the places where it had been…
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