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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
cision of the Supreme Court of Georgia in the Impressment case. The Atlanta (Georgia) papers tell of an interesting judicial decision rendered by the Supreme Court of that State in an impressment case. Major Cummings, under instructions from the Secretary of War, seized most of the sugar in Atlanta, Georgia, for the use of the Government, allowing therefore the sum of seventy-five cents per pound, the price fixed by the Impressment Commissioners of that State. The parties represented by Cox & Hill refused to accept the seventy-five cents per pound as just compensation, having paid considerably over that price for the sugar. They at once commenced action against Major Cummings, and by mutual agreement between the parties a case was at once made up, presenting all the points involved — the object of both parties being fairly to the test the constitutionality and validity of the law. We quote from the Atlanta (Georgia) Confederacy: It was argued before Judge Bull, at Chambers