United States Court of Claims December 15, 1870 (De Bebian v. United States)

Nott, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an action brought to recover the net proceeds of two hundred and eleven bales of cotton, captured at Wilmington. The proceeds, it is alleged, amount to not.less than $43,000.

After the bringing of this action, one Alexander Oldham instituted another suit to recover the proceeds of seventy bales of the same cotton.