Lanier v. Lanier

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The plaintiff had a right to sign her own petition. Art. I, sec. I, par. IV, of the Constitution of this State (Code, Ann., § 2-104) provides as follows: “No person shall be deprived of the right to prosecute or defend his own cause in any of the courts of this State, in person, by attorney, or both.” See Loomis v. State, 78 Ga. App. 153 (51 S. E. 2d, 13); Tatum v. Allison, Anderson & Co., 31 Ga. 337.

Counsel for the defendant contends that, since the passage of the act of 1931 (Code § 9-401) as amended in 1937, defining the practice of law, and the act…