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The right to a fund resulting from the payment of an appropriation by Congress to satisfy a judgment for the value of property taken during the Civil War is contested between the heirs of the original claimant and persons who received an assignment of the claim from the original claimant. The court enforced the assignment, rejecting the assumption that the original claimant was prohibited from assigning the claim under federal law. The judgment in favor of the assignment was affirmed.
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