MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.
After reciting the facts in the foregoing language, he continued:
The first of these defences is intended to assert the validity of the military order by which defendants under compulsion of that order paid the rent which as tenants of Clark they then owed to him, into the military chest of General Schofield, and that said order being lawful and valid is a full protection to them and a bar to this action...
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