The Juniata

APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana.

The decree of the Circuit Court in this case was signed Feb. 13, 1874. An appeal was taken therefrom, and the record filed here on the thirteenth day of the following October.

Mr. Thomas J. Durant filed a certified copy of the order of the said Circuit Court, bearing date June 1, 1875, for a commission to take the deposition of certain witnesses to be used here, and moved that the depositions taken thereunder be made a part of the record.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.