John Hessin Clarke

“ Pillow sent it to the Red river for shipment to market, where it was seized by the United States Treasury agents, under authority of 'An act to provide for the collection of abandoned property,' etc., approved March 12, 1863, 12 Stat. ”

“ The natural and impressive inference from these facts is, not that Mrs. Pillow obtained from Hamiter a good title to the cotton and a right to the proceeds of it, but that these two persons, parties to the sale, who were 50 years nearer to it than courts can now be placed and who knew more about it than it is possible now to learn, agreed that it should be rescinded because of the prior 'transactions of Hamiter in connection with the cotton,' which must mean that the title which he was able to confer upon Mrs. ”