Supreme Court of the United States March 18, 1847 (John C. Sheppard and Others, in Error v. John Wilson)

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 Couft of the United