“ Pursuant to this rule the stipulation of the parties was presented to the clerk of this court, on the eighth of June, 1887, in vacation, and he entered the case 'Dismissed.' No mandate or other process has as yet been ordered by the court. Albert M. Henry claims to have purchased from Charles B. Colton and Lester A. Roberts, two of the plaintiffs in error, their respective interests in the land which is the subject-matter of the controversy in the suit, on the sixteenth of May, 1887, before the stipulation was signed. ”