
    (Not réported in C. Cls'. R.;
    99 U. S. R., 265.)
    Walter Pugh, appellee, v. The United States, appellants.
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    
      The claimant’s sugar in Louisiana is seized and sold by the sequestration commission before the enactment of the abandoned or captured property act. The proceeds are not traced directly to the Treasury, but facts and circumstances are found by the court beloio from lohieh the ultimate fact is deduced and found that the proceeds reached the Treasury.
    
    
      The court below renders judgment in favor of the claimant without an opinion being delivered. The defendants appeal.
    The judgment of the court below is affirmed. The Supreme Court now holds: (1) That the Court of Claims has jurisdiction of a suit under the abandoned or captured property act when the capture was anterior to the statute; (2) That the findings of fact in this case are sufficient to sustain the judgement; (3) The court reviews its decisions in Crussels’, Boss’s, and the Intermingled Cotton Cases.
    
   The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, March 3, 1879.  