Mr. Justice STORY delivered the opinion of the Court.
In this case a motion has been made on behalf of the defendant in error, to docket and dismiss this suit, under the forty-third rule of the Court. That rule allows the suit to be docketed and dismissed, upon the production of a certificate from the clerk of the Court below, certifying that the writ of error had been duly sued out and allowed. In the present case no such certificate is produced. But the original...
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