United States Court of Claims December 15, 1869 (Lobsiger v. United States)

Casey, Ch. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

The claimant sues to recover the net proceeds of eight bales of cotton, which he alleges he owned, and which, after the capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by the Union army in February, 1865, was seized and sold, and the proceeds paid into the Treasury of the United States.

*692Upon tlie bearing, tbe proofs established tbe following facts:

1.