Hines v. Jolly

In each of the above cases the plaintiff in error filed a petition in which he asked this court to grant him permission to withdraw his bill of exceptions and to direct that the official copy of the same of file in the clerk’s office of the trial court be treated as exceptions pendente lite. In each case the bill of exceptions assigned as error the overruling of the defendant’s motion to transfer the case to the Federal court, and the reason assigned in the petition for the request made was that “through inadvertence” the plaintiff in error had failed within the proper time to have counsel…