MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiffs in error invoke the jurisdiction of this court upon the ground stated in the third clause of Rev. Stat. section 709 of a "title, right, privilege or immunity claimed under . . . an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or immunity specially set up or claimed." The special right claimed was a right as...
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