MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a bill in chancery, which was dismissed by the decree of the court below for want of jurisdiction.
The bill, though very informal, sets out certain proceedings in the State court of Louisiana for the parish of St. John the Baptist, under which real property on which the complainant held a mortgage for a large amount had been sold, which, if permitted to stand, cut off the lien of his mortgage....
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