Blewett v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The defendants, at the trial, offered in evidence two bills of sale, dated respectively December 23, 1862, and January 13, 1863, purporting to convey the claimant’s said cotton to the u Confederate States of America,” and to be signed by the claimant, and they requested the court to admit the same upon a comparison by the court of the signatures thereto with the signature of the claimant to his petition in this case, which…
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The defendants, at the trial, offered in evidence two bills of sale, dated respectively December 23, 1862, and January 13, 1863, purporting to convey the claimant’s said cotton to the u Confederate States of America,” and to be signed by the claimant, and they requested the court to admit the same upon a comparison by the court of the signatures thereto with the signature of the claimant to his petition in this case, which is admitted to have been signed by him. And the signatures, being so compared by the court, were found to be in the…
1Opinion of the CourtRiohakdson, J.
The first question of law which arises in this case is upon the admissibility of certain evidence offered by the defendants.
Mr. Johnston, of the Attorney-General’s Office, in behalf of the United States, produced in court from the rebel archives in possession of the Treasury Department, as was admitted, two *241bills of sale, purporting to be signed by the claimant, and conveying to the Confederate States the cotton which is the subject of this suit, and requested the court, sitting as jurors, to compare the signatures thereto with the admitted signature of the claimant to his petition in this…
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