Case ID: us-ct-cl_13/html/0556-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Chief Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BLEWETT’S CASE.
    (10 C. Cls. R., 235;
    not reported in U. S. R.)
    Thomas G. Blewett v. The United States.
    
      On the claimant’s Appeal.
    
    
      The claimant brings hie ¡mil under the Abandoned or captured property Act for the proceeds of certain captured cotton. The defendants, on the trial, offer ■in evidence two bills of sale of this cotton from the claimant to the Confederate States. It is admitted that these bills were found in the Confederate archives. The court is ashed to compare than with the claimant’s signature to his petition. The comparison being made, the bills are found to be in, the handwriting of the claimant. The claimant objects to their admission in evidence on mere comparison mid excepts to the ruling of the court. The court notes the objection and exception in its findings.
    
    Tlie court below holds: (1) That under its decision in lied wag’s Case (6 Cl. Cls. R., 421) tlie bills of sale can Improved by tlie court, as a jury, making- comparison of tlie band writing-; (2) That the sale to tlie Confederate States vested the title in them as against tlie claimant; (3) That the Government may maintain under Sprolt’s Case (10 C. Cls. R., 1) that sale and delivery by the Confederate States did not pass the title of p>ersonal property to the purchaser, but that it does not lie in the mouth of aclaim-ant to say that his sale of personal property to the Confederate States was illegal and void. Judgment for the defendants. The claimant appeals.
    The judgment of the court below is affirmed without an opinion by tlie Supreme Court.
   The Chief Justice

announced tlie decision of tlie Supreme Court, February 18, 1878, but no opinion inis since been filed.