Smith v. . Abrams

The application is for an order to bring up the-record of the cause determined at fall term, 1881, of the superior court of Anson, the transcript of which, upon the petitioner’s appeal, was filed in this court at February term, 1883, and the appeal dismissed for insufficiency in the appellants’ undertaking, in that the surety thereto had not justified.

The only reasons now assigned for the granting of the writ,, and in excuse for non-compliance with the requirements of the statute, are, that it was not a uniform practice in that court for the surety to make oath to his ability to meet his…