In this case a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Michigan (Mr. J. G. Sutherland, for the plaintiff in error; Mr. G. T. Edmunds, contra) had been filed on the 27th of November, 1871, but the plaintiff in error had filed no assignment of errors or brief as required by the rules of the court. And for those reasons (Mr. Justice CLIFFORD announcing the decision of the court) the judgment was

Aeeirmed.