¶1This is a claim preferred under the 3d section of the act of March 12,1863, for the net proceeds of two bales of cotton. He proves his intestate was the owner, entitled to the proceeds, and never gave aid or comfort to the rebellion or to persons engaged therein, but did during said rebeUioh consistently adhere to the United States. The net proceeds amount to the sum of seven hundred and nineteen dollars and eighty-eight cents, and for this sum we enter judgment in favor of the claimant.
4 Ct. Cl. 521
Mims v. United States
Decided December 15, 1868
United States Court of Claims · decided 1868-12-15
The claimant in this case is the administrator of Jacob Red-wine, deceased, and brings action to recover the proceeds of two bales of cotton, weighing 695 pounds, belonging to his decedent, seized, with cotton belonging to many other persons, shortly after the occupation of Atlanta by the military forces of the United States.
Decided 1868-12-15