MR. JUSTICE SWAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.
This case was brought here by a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois.
The alleged ground of our jurisdiction is, that the record presents a question of Federal jurisprudence. A brief statement of the facts will be sufficient for the purposes of this opinion.
The plaintiff in error was incorporated by an act of the legislature, approved March 8, 1867. The act declared that...
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