United States Court of Claims December 15, 1880 (Smith v. United States)

Hunt, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

In the Intermingled Cotton Cases (92 U. S. R., 651) the Supreme Court, affirming the opinion of this court, said: “ Each owner of property intermingled with other property of the same kind and value, and stored in a common mass, becomes the owner as tenant in common of an interest in the mass proportionate to his contribution.