CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. No. 22. Argued January 15, 16, 1930. Decided February 24, 1930. 1. When used without qualification in a decree of a federal court, the word "costs" means the amounts taxable as such under Acts of Congress, rules promulgated by its authority and practice established consistently with governing enactments. P. 9. 2. In equity costs not otherwise governed by statute are given or withheld in the sound discretion of the court according
OCTOBER TERM, 1879. 1. It has been settled in this court that the title of the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company to the lands donated to the State of Iowa for the improvement of the Des Moines River by the act of Aug. 8, 1846 ( 9 Stat. 77), is good against the State, the railroad companies claiming under the act of May 15, 1856 (11 id. 9), and, after 1855, as against pre-emptors under the act of Sept. 4, 1841. 5 id. 453. 2. The order of the Secretary of the Interior of April 6, 1850, directing
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA. No. 203. Argued March 12, 1903. Decided March 23, 1903. An averment in a bill that the complainants are "all of Cognac in France, and citizens of the Republic of France," is sufficient to give the Circuit Court of the United States for Nebraska jurisdiction in a controversy where the defendants are citizens of Nebraska. No averment of alienage is necessary. Where the Circuit Court dismisses a bill on the ground that