Witham v. Clinton Circuit Judge

The relator was granted a decree in the circuit court for the county of Clinton, in chancery, on the 1st day of August, 1907. Thereafter, on the 29th of October, 1907, the defendant in that case filed a claim of appeal, and on the same day filed a motion asking the circuit judge to extend the time for filing claim of appeal, and to extend the time for settling the testimony in the case. This motion was granted. By this application the relator seeks to raise the question of the authority of the circuit judge to extend the time for taking an appeal from a decree in chancery, the contention…