Sloatman v. Gibbons

HATHAWAY, Chief Judge.

These extraordinary writ proceedings were instituted by the petitioner to obtain a writ of mandamus ordering the respondent judge to grant the petitioner’s motion for waiver of filing fees and the respondent clerk to accept and file a divorce complaint.

On August 28, 1968, the petitioner, by her attorney, a staff member of the Legal Aid Society, presented a verified complaint for divorce to the office of the respondent clerk for filing. An affidavit of indigency and inability to pay the required filing fee,, executed by the petitioner, was presented', simultaneously…