Morgan v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. These four oases involved claims against the United States for the payment of certain bonds of the United States, known as “ five-twenty bonds,” consols of 1865, issued in pursuance of the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the act of Congress approved March 3,1865, entitled “ An Apt to provide ways and means for the support of the government.”
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APPEALS FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. These four oases involved claims against the United States for the payment of certain bonds of the United States, known as “ five-twenty bonds,” consols of 1865, issued in pursuance of the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the act of Congress approved March 3,1865, entitled “ An Apt to provide ways and means for the support of the government.” Twenty bonds of the denomination of $1,000 each and sixteen of $500 each were embraced in the suits. The controversy related to the title only, all of them being claimed by the Manhattan Savings…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
He recited the facts, as above' stated, and continued :
The conclusions of law reached by the Court of Claims, on which its judgments are founded, and which are stated and supported in its opinion by the late learned Chief Justice of that court, are comprised in these propositions: that if the claimants, J. S. Morgan & Co., and L. Voh Hoffman & Co., or any other party from whom they are shown to have bought, had purchased the bonds in good faith for value before maturity, their “title would prevail against that of the Manhattan Savings Institution, from whom they had been stolen; that, on the…
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