Opinion of the Court.

paramount to the lien of each and every of the said defendants;" and that, in default of payment by the mortgagor of the sums found due on the mortgage, "the right, title and equity of redemption of each and every of the defendants in this suit be" by a sale under the decree "forever barred and foreclosed." But it further declares that "the purchaser at such sale shall take the premises sold by title absolute," and that "such title shall relate back to the date of the execution of the mortgage," specifying that date.

That decree is a conclusive adjudication, which cannot be collaterally impeached by Callanan or by those claiming under him, that he had no valid title or lien of any kind against the plaintiff as mortgagee of the land in question, and as purchaser at the sale under the decree of foreclosure; and was rightly held to estop the grantees of Callanan to set up his tax title in the present action.

Judgment affirmed.

APPENDIX.

I.

AMENDMENT TO RULES

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

OCTOBER TERM, 1887.

ORDERED, That the first subdivision of Rule 20 be amended so as to read as follows:

RULE 20-PRINTED ARGUMENTS.

1. In all cases brought here on writ of error, appeal, or otherwise, the court will receive printed arguments without regard to the number of the case on the docket, if the counsel on both sides shall choose to submit the same within the first ninety days of the term; and, in addition, appeals from the Court of Claims may be submitted by both parties within thirty days after they are docketed, but not after the first day of April; but twenty-five copies of the arguments, signed by attorneys or counsellors of this court, must be first filed. Promulgated October 31, 1887.

II.

In Memoriam.

WILLIAM BURNHAM WOODS, LL.D.

DIED MAY 14, 1887.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

MONDAY, November 7, 1887.

MR. ATTORNEY GENERAL addressed the court as follows:

MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT: I have been requested by the bar and officers of this court to present resolutions recently adopted by them, expressive of their estimate of the life, character, and services of the late MR. JUSTICE WOODS and their sorrow at his death, for such action as the court may see fit to take as to them.

In performing this duty, I wish to add a few words, and they need be but few, for the resolutions themselves speak so distinctly and in terms so strong of the true character of our departed friend, there is little room for anything more to be said.

I knew Judge Woods well and somewhat intimately, from the time he came upon this bench, fresh and vigorous from a field of vast labor and responsibility, second only to the one he entered upon here.

His work on the circuit had been onerous and exacting, indeed often perplexing and harassing; for during much of that time" even peace was full of horrors.”

He came here from that labor well prepared and ready for the great task that lay before him.

Manfully and conscientiously did he address now say what I have often said before of him

himself to it, and I

never did I see one