PUGH v. UNITED STATES, 80 U.S. 633 (1871)

PUGH v. UNITED STATES. DECEMBER TERM, 1871. A petition to the Court of Claims setting forth — First. That the United States, during the late civil war, illegally, violently, and forcibly took possession of the petitioner’s plantation, in one of the rebellious States, on the false pretext that it had been abandoned by the owner, […]

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80 U.S. 633

80 U.S. 633 80 U.S. 633 20 L.Ed. 711 13 Wall. 633 PUGHv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: By the act of Congress of 1855, constituting the Court of Claims, jurisdiction is given to it to hear and determine all claims against the United States founded […]

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