Pickens v. Clark
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from 'Circuit Court, Mobile County ; Claud A. Grayson, Judge. Bill by James K. Clark, Sr., against Viva A. Pickens and others to review a decree rendered and for other relief. From a decree overruling demurrers to the bill, respondents appeal.
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Appeal from 'Circuit Court, Mobile County ; Claud A. Grayson, Judge. Bill by James K. Clark, Sr., against Viva A. Pickens and others to review a decree rendered and for other relief. From a decree overruling demurrers to the bill, respondents appeal. The bill in this case was filed by James K. Clark, Sr., in the circuit court of Mobile county to have set aside and held for naught a certain final 'decree rendered in said court on April 19, 1917, in favor of appellants hero against James K. Clark, Sr., James K. Clark, Jr., and others, all of whom were nonresident respondents. The bill shows…
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
Prior to Acts of 1915, p. 279, the Thirteenth district of the Southwestern chancery division was composed of Mobile and Baldwin counties; and by the provisions of said act the chancery court of Baldwin county was consolidated into the circuit court of said county. By the consolidating act above referred to it was provided:
“That all the papers, books, files and records of every kind belonging to, or on file in any court hereby consolidated into the circuit court shall be transferred to and become a part of the papers, files, books and records of the circuit court and all causes, or proceedings…
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