Adamson v. Hurt

Defendants have entered a motion to dismiss complainant’s appeal, because taken upon the pauper’s oath before the clerk and master, out of term time, and because its terms are not in accordance with the statute.

The complainant was, by the chancellor’s decree, allowed to give bond or take the pauper’s oath within «twenty days after the adjournment of court. "Within six days after the order was made, complainant took an oath, reciting- that owing- to his poverty he was unable “to give security,” etc. This oath is not such as the statute requires in such cases. It has, however, been held by the…