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  "id": 2083750,
  "name": "MARY PORTER v. LEVI JONES",
  "name_abbreviation": "Porter v. Jones",
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      "MARY PORTER v. LEVI JONES."
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        "text": "Settle, J.\nThe sole question in this case is, can a nonresident of this State, but a resident of another State in the Union, sue in our Courts as a pauper ?\nThe Code of Civil Procedure, sec. 72, enacts, that \u201cany Judge of the Superior Court may authorize any person to sue as a pauper,\u201d when he shall comply with the terms of the act, &c., &c.\nThe expression, any person, is very broad and comprehensive, as is also the language in .the Revised Statutes, chap. 3l, sec. 47, and in the Revised Code, chap. 31, sec. 43, butwe can find no case in this State in which the right of a citizen of another State to sue as a pauper has come under review.\nIf we admit, as was argued by the able counsel for the defendant, that in England foreigners were excluded from the benefit of this class of legislation, still that does not establish the position for which he contended; for while the States of this Union are sovereign and independent for certain purposes, they are united for others.\nA citizen from a sister State stands on a very different footing from a citizen of a foreign government; for the Constitution of the United States declares that \u201c full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other State.\u201d And again,\n\u201c The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.\u201d These quotations illustrate the comity which our forefathers thought should exist between the citizens of the several States.\nIt cannot be that precedents from the English books can afford light in construing the relations between citizens of the several States of the Union. .\u2022\nOur conclusion is, that there was no error in the ruling off. his Honor, permitting the plaintiff, who resides in Tennessee, to sue in our Courts as a pauper.\nThis will be certified.\nPer Curiam.\nJudgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Settle, J. Per Curiam."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Folk and Armfield, for appellant.",
      "J. W. Todd, for plaintiff."
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    "head_matter": "MARY PORTER v. LEVI JONES.\nResidents of other States in the Union can sue in the Courts of this State, in forma pav/peris. Code of Civil Procedure, sec. 72.\nMotion heard before Mitchell, J., at the Fall Term, 1872, of the Superior Court for Alleghany county.\nThe defendants filed an affidavit charging that the plaintiff had sued in forma pauperis, and that she was a nonresident, living in the State of Tennessee. The facts stated were admitted by plaintiff. The defendant then moved to dismiss the action upon the ground that a non-resident cannot sue as a pauper in the Courts of this State. His Honor refused to allow the motion. Defendant appealed.\nFolk and Armfield, for appellant.\nJ. W. Todd, for plaintiff."
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