Converse v. Miller

Citations

• 33 Tex. 216

Syllabus

<p>1. In 1864 an agent, acting with the advice and assistance of his principal, surrendered to the Cotton Bureau of the Confederate States, then dominant in Texas, one-half of the principal’s, cotton, to obtain a permit to export the other half to Mexico and thence to Liverpool. Held, that the transaction was in direct aid of the rebellion, and in violation of the blockade and of the laws of the United States then in force; that the principal and agent were in pari de'icio, arid neither of them could maintain a suit against the other for proceeds or other liabilities arising out of the transaction.</p>