MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
This record does not show that the Circuit Court had jurisdiction of the suit which depended alone on the citizenship of the parties. The petition states that Edmund Menard, the plaintiff, "resides in Randolph County, in the state of Illinois," and that the defendants, of whom Thomas Goggan, the defendant in error, was one, "reside in the city of Galveston," in the state of Texas. There is nothing else from...
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