The first question is whether this court can entertain jurisdiction of this writ of error, and this must be answered in the negative, if the ground on which the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court was invoked was "dependent entirely upon the opposite parties to the suit or controversy, being . . . citizens of different States...
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