Legal Opinion
Davis v. Adams
District Court, N.D. California
Decided May 29, 1901No. 11,829PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty. Motion for an order directing the clerk to pay to libelant the amount of a judgment in his favor paid into court.
1Opinion of the Court
DE HAVEN, District Judge.
This action was prosecuted by the libelant in foima pauperis, under the act of July 20, 1892 (27 Stat. 252). That act provides:
“That any citizen of the United States entitled to commence any suit or action in any court of the United States, may commence and prosecute to *272conclusion any such suit or action without being required to prepay fees or costs or give security therefor before or after bringing suit or action, upon filing in said court a statement under oath, in writing, that, because of his poverty, he is unable to pay the costs of said suit or action which he…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Columb v. Webster Manuf'g Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1896
3Cited by1 opinion
- Melvin Perkins v. Samuel Cingliano, SrCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1961