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

Milligan, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an action brought under the “Abandoned and, captured property acts,” to recover the net proceeds of 178 bales of cotton, alleged to. have been seized on the plantation near Lake Providence, in Louisiana.

*695The action was originally brought in the name of Warren M. Benton, and his wife, Mrs. Benton, and shortly before the .