MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
This appeal was taken since the act of March 3, 1885, c. 355, 23 Stat. 443, went into effect. That statute, by § 1, limits appeals to this court from the Supreme Courts of the Territories and from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to cases where the value of the matter in dispute exceeds five thousand dollars, except, by § 2, the validity of a patent or copyright is involved, or the...
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