Case: Delancy Jencks v. The United States
Abbreviation: Jencks v. United States
Decision Date: 1868-12
Docket Number: 
Citation: 4 Ct. Cl. 587
Volume: 4
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Delancy Jencks v. The United States.
Judges: 
Pages: 587–588

Head Matter:
Delancy Jencks v. The United States.
On the Proofs.
'This, like the preceding ease, presents only questions of fact: The ownership of the cotton, its seizure, sale, and payment into the Treasury of the net proceeds, and the loyalty of the claimantheing fully proved, a judgment is therefore rendered in his favor. It is printed as one of the decisions of the court.
Messrs. Riddle and Leshi for the claimant:
The claimant is a colored man, residing at Savannah; his loyalty to the United States is clearly established.
The official records of the War Department show that three bales of upland cotton were reported in claimant’s name, and that the same were taken in the name of the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury reports that the net proceeds of the cotton amount to $176 56 per bale.
It is submitted that the claimant is clearly entitled to a judgment for the proceeds of his three bales of cotton.
Mr. R. 8. Male, special counsel of the Treasury, for the ■defendants.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
The claimant is a colored, man, living at Savannah, Georgia. He proves that he owned three bales of cotton when the Union army captured that city. It was taken by the United States and sold and the proceeds paid into the Treasury. ITe proves his loyalty, and so is entitled to recover.
A judgment will be rendered in his favor for the net proceeds of three bales so soon as we shall be more fully advised as to the amount of such proceeds.
And now, to wit, May 26,3.869; The court, on due considera- tion of the premises, find for the claimant for three bales of cotton, and do order, adjudge, and decree that the said Delancey Jencks have and recover of and from the United States the sum of five hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-nine cents ($57129.)