Noah Haynes Swayne

“ The counsel of the appellants have contended, in an argument of unusual research and ability, that the cotton in question was not captured or abandoned property within the meaning of the act upon that subject, and that hence the limitation in that act has no application to this case. Our view renders it unnecessary to consider this point. We therefore pass from it without further remark. The only question to be considered is whether the action is barred by the limitation of six years in the Court of Claims act before referred to.
Nothing can be clearer than the terms of the limiting section. ”

“ The findings are as follows:--
'In July and August, 1865, the petitioners, James S.C.lark and Edward Fulton, were merchants and copartners doing business at New Orleans, under the firm name and style of J. S.C.lark & Co., and Joseph C. Palmer was a merchant at Mobile.
'In said July and August the petitioners were the owners jointly of nine hundred bales of cotton, which arrived at Mobile in the last part of said July or the first part of said August, consigned by them to T. C. A. Dexter, supervising special agent of the Treasury Department for the department of Alabama. ”