First Union National Bank v. F.A. Realty Investors Corp.

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• holding that appeal filed within allotted time period but without payment of requisite fee or attempt to obtain in formal pauperis status was valid; “the perfection of the appeal does not depend in any way on the payment of the filing fee”
• stating that an appeal is not rendered automatically invalid by an appellant's initial failure to tender the required fees, and an appeal filed within the allowed time without the requisite fee will still be considered valid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).