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LAMAR EXECUTOR v. BROWNE ET AL.

92 U.S. 187 (____)

LAMAR, EXECUTOR, v. BROWNE ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George T. Curtis and Mr. E.N. Dickerson for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Assistant Attorney-General Edwin B. Smith for the defendants in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action of trover, brought by Lamar, the plaintiff, to recover of the defendants the value of eighteen hundred bales of cotton alleged to have been taken and converted by them. The defendants justified, as agents of the United States to receive and collect abandoned and captured property, under the several acts of Congress providing therefor. Upon the trial...

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