Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.
This case is brought up by a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Iowa.
A motion has been made to dismiss it, upon the ground that the writ of error was allowed, the citation signed, and the bond approved, by the chief justice of the Territorial court, and not by one of the justices of a Circuit Court of the United States, or a justice of the Supreme Court, as required by the act...
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