Danforth v. Wear

This is one of those cases which not unfre-quently occur, in which, for want of the scrutinizing eye of the party interested to maintain a judgment below, the Court there is nhade to appear to have given a decision very different from that actually rendered. But, whatever may be the opinion of this Court, independently of the record, we are concluded by the bill of exceptions, and must decide according to those questions which the record presents.

' The parties are citizens of the same State, but jurisdiction is given to the Courts of the United State's, by the fact of their claiming title ,…