Mr. Justice WOODBURY delivered the opinion of the court.
The judgment in this case below was founded entirely on the bill in chancery and the general demurrer to it.
There is in the record an answer filed a few days previous to the judgment. But the cause having before been set down for a hearing on the bill and demurrer, the answer does not appear to have been at all considered, — for that or some other reason, — and is not referred to in the...
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