Legal Opinion

Kinney v. Plymouth Rock Squab Co.

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 18, 1915PublishedCited by 100 opinions

APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO DOCKET AND PROSECUTE WITHOUT PREPAYMENT OF FEES. The facts, which involve the construction and application of the Federal statute relative to conducting cases in forma pauperis, are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White

Prosecuting a writ of error in this case allowed by a circuit judge, the plaintiff in error asks to be permitted to docket the cause and conduct the proceedings in forma pauperis. The matter is governed by the act of July 20, 1892, c. 209, 27 Stat. 252, as amended by the.act of June 25, 1910, c. 435, 36 Stat. 866. We summarize their provisions, reproducing, however, in full the first section as amended by the act of 1910, as that was the only portion of the original act changed by the amendment, printing in italics the provisions added and putting in brackets with a line of erasure the words…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Bradford v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1904
  2. United States Ex Rel. Kinney v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1911

3Cited by100 opinions

  1. Adkins v. E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1948
  2. Leroy Jefferson v. United States of America, UndocketedCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1960
  3. Washington-Southern Navigation Co. v. Baltimore & Philadelphia Steamboat Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1924
  4. Higgins v. SteeleCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1952
  5. United States ex rel. Hyde v. McGinnisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970

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