Case Name: UNITED STATES v. VIRGINIA BONDS
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1862-05-31
Citations: 28 F. Cas. 384
Docket Number: 
Parties: UNITED STATES v. VIRGINIA BONDS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 28
Pages: 384–384

Head Matter:
Case lío. 16,626.
UNITED STATES v. VIRGINIA BONDS.
[9 Pittsb. Leg. J. 377.]
District Court, N. D. New York.
May 31, 1862.
Confiscation Act of 1861.
[The confiscation act of July 13, 1861 (12 -Stat. 255), did not embrace choses in action, such as bonds, stocks, etc., or money.]

Opinion:
This was a seizure of $70,000 worth of Southern bonds, the property of Mr. Guthrie, stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The jury, by direction of the court, rendered a verdict restoring the property to the claimant, the judge (SMALLEY, District Judge) charging that the confiscation act oí July 13, 1861 [12 Stat. 255] under which the [sixty-one] bonds were seized, was a revenue act, and covered only goods, chattels, wares, and merchandise, or such property as was properly cognizable under the revenue act; that it did not embrace choses in action, such as bonds, stocks, &c., nor any money.