MR. JUSTICE GRAY delivered the opinion of the court. He recited the facts in the foregoing language, and continued:
The grounds on which the appellant contends that the claim now asserted is not barred by the decree rendered in 1871 in the former suit in the Circuit Court, resolve themselves into these two: First. That it is found as a fact that this claim was not litigated in that suit. Second. That it could not have been considered in that suit, because the facts...
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