Helge v. Wood

McCLENDON, Chief Justice.

Original application for mandamus to compel the district clerk of McCulloch county (Thirty-Fifth district) to prepare transcript of the record in a cause appealed upon a pauper’s oath. The pertinent facts follow:

Judgment was rendered on April 27, 1933; and on May 3d a pauper’s oath in statutory form (R. C. S. art. 2266, as amended by Acts 1931, 42d Leg., Reg. Sess., p. 226, ch. 134, § 1 [Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 2266]) was presented to the clerk, and his filing indorsed thereon, under the circumstances hereinafter detailed. It was not left with the clerk, but…