Smith v. Prichard

The final decree of the chancery court in this cause dismissed the complainant’s bill at her cost and granted an appeal, prayed by complainant, to this court, “upon execution of appeal bond as required by law, or upon her taking and filing a pauper’s oath,” and complainant was allowed thirty days in which to perfect her appeal.

When the case was heard on the regular call of our docket, and the record was passed to the court, it was seen that the transcript contained a pauper’s oath of the complainant for an appeal, but that the record did not show when, if at all, said oath was filed in the…