Confiscation Cases

Syllabus

<p>X. An informer, in prosecutions under the act of August Cth, 1861, widen subjects to confiscation, upon libel filed, property whose owner used or consented to its use in aiding the rebellion, lias no vested interest in the subject-matter of the suits; and this, notwithstanding that the act declares that whore any person lijes an information with the Attorney of the United States (as the act allows any person to do), the proceedings shall bo “ for the use of such informer and the United States in equal parts.”</p> <p>2. Hence, the Attorney-.General may properly, and against the interest and objection of the informer, ask a dismissal of an appeal to this court in cases where the decree below, having been against it, the government has appealed; and in the same way ask, upon agreement to that effect with the counsel of the claimants, for a reversal of a decree, where, on decree against them, the appeal has been by the other side, and for a remand of the cause to the court below, with directions to it to dismiss the libel.</p>