THE PROTECTOR


79 U.S. 700 (____)

12 Wall. 700

THE PROTECTOR.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Phillips contended that it was not; Mr. F.S. Blount, contra, urging that it was.


The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.

The question, in the present case is, when did the rebellion begin and end? In other words, what space of time must be considered as excepted from the operation of the statute of limitations by the war of the rebellion?

Acts of hostility by the insurgents occurred at periods so various, and of such different degrees of importance, and in parts of the country so remote from each other, both at the commencement...

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