Lester v. Haynes

Blandford, Justice.

In this case, the plaintiffs in error brought their action against the defendants in error in the county court of Sumter county. Judgment was rendered against the plaintiffs in error. An appeal was entered, and a certain person made an affidavit, as agent for the plaintiffs in error, that he and they were advised and believed that they had good cause of appeal, and that owing to their poverty, his poverty and the poverty of the estate, they were not able to pay the costs and give the security required by law. When the case was reached in the superior court, the court, on…