Mowry v. Davenport

A number of cases pending in the chancery court • at Winchester were heard together on the 1st of July, 1879,' and one decree rendered disposing of all of them ■on the merits. From this decree Samuel Mowry, who was the complainant in one of the suits to which ■all the other parties were defendants and the principal •defendant in the other suits, prayed an appeal, and it was granted upon his giving bond with security within .a given time as required by law. Finding himself unable to give the bond demanded by the clerk, Mowry took the oath prescribed for poor persons. The form in which the…