MR. JUSTICE BROWN delivered the opinion of the court.
By the act of March 3, 1885, 23 Stat. 443, c. 355, "no appeal or writ of error shall hereafter be allowed from any judgment or decree in any suit at law or in equity . . . in the Supreme Court of any of the Territories of the United States, unless the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars." The proceeding in this case was a special one to compel the abatement and destruction...
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