White v. Tenth District Court

This petition for certiorari by a judgment creditor asks us to review the action of a district court judge who admitted a judgment debtor to the poor debtor’s oath and thereby relieved him from his imprisonment in the adult correctional institutions where he had been committed on an execution issued on a superior court judgment of approximately $3,100 obtained in a suit brought to recover the unpaid balance due on a promissory note.

The initial question posed by petitioner in his brief was whether G. L. 1956, §10-13-1, as amended, permitted the debtor to take the oath within 13 days of his…