O'Connor v. Solomon

The appellant, plaintiff in the court below, both there and here has herself prosecuted the case, although she is wholly without training or experience in legal procedure. A party who, unskilled in such matters, seeks to remedy some claimed wrong by invoking processes which are at best technical and complicated, is very ill advised and assumes a most difficult task. Our courts, however, have always been lenient toward such an one, relaxing the rules wherever it can be done with propriety, and the record before us is replete with evidence that every reasonable assistance was given to the…