This is an appeal by the complainant below from the following part of the decree in the cause: 'It is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the said respondent, Sarah G. Davenport, pay to the complainant the sum of five hundred and sixteen and 77-100 dollars, with interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum from the tenth day of May, 1883, the same being the amount, with interest, which the undivided half of the south half of block fifty-nine, (59,) which descended to, and has become vested in, the said Sarah G. Davenport, as the mother and an heir at law of the said George A. Davenport, deceased, is chargeable for and on account of taxes on said block fifty-nine, (59,) which were paid and discharged out of the money advanced by the said Equitable Trust Company on the twenty-eighth of June, 1875; and that, on failure to pay the said sum within the time herein limited, the said master sell, at public sale, so much of the said Sarah G. Davenport's undivided half of the south half of said block fifty-nine (59) as shall be necessary to pay the same. Such sale to be made at the same place, and in the same manner, and in all respects as is herein prescribed for the sale of the property of the said George A. Davenport, and with like effect. It is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed that upon payment by the said Sarah G. Davenport of the said sum of five hundred and sixteen and 77-100 dollars to the said complainant, complainant's bill be dismissed as to the undivided one-half of the south half of said block fifty-nine, (59,) which vested in and to which the said Sarah G. has become entitled, as the mother and heir at law of the said George A. Davenport, deceased. And it is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed that, as between the complainant and the said Sarah G. Davenport, the said Sarah G. Davenport recover of complainant the costs of this suit, so far § made, in trying the issue of the sanity of said George A. Davenport at the time of the making and delivery of said mortgage set up in complainant's original bill.'

The only parties to the suit who are before this court are Henry R. Bond, trustee, complainant below and appellant, and Sarah G. Davenport. These parties have filed in this court the following stipulation:

Bond v. Davenport/Opinion of the Court

'IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Bond v. Davenport/Opinion of the Court

'Henry R. Bond, Trustee, Appellant, vs. Sarah G. Davenport, Appellee.

Bond v. Davenport/Opinion of the Court

'Appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the Southern district of Iowa.