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• Title: Walker's Ex'Rs and Another v. United States
• Author : United States Supreme Court
• Release Date : January 04, 1882
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 68 KB

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In this action, brought under the captured and abandoned property act of March 12, 1863, the present appellants seek to recover from the United States the net proceeds (alleged to be at least $600,000) of certain cotton, seized and sold by the agents of the government in the year 1865. The petition was dismissed in the court of claims, and from the judgment of dismissal this appeal has been prosecuted. The facts, as found by that court, are substantially these: Prior to the year 1865, John Scott, the chief agent for produce loan for the confederate government in Alabama and east Mississippi, purchased in lots, at different times, and of different planters in those states, 3,405 bales of cotton, taking from the planter, on each purchase, a receipt and agreement in the following form:

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