MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellee, who was the plaintiff below, seeks to recover from the executor of Gazaway B. Lamar a sum of money, on the allegation that the testator received that money from the United States, as the proceeds of 136 bales of upland cotton, which belonged to the assignor of the plaintiff. Lamar recovered in the court of claims, on the 1st of June, 1873, a judgment against the United States for $579,343.51...
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