Ex Parte Johnson

BROWN, Justice.

The Law and Equity Court of Franklin County, created by local act No. 404, approved September 28, 1923, has concurrent-equity jurisdiction with the circuit courts; of the state. Loc.Acts 1923, p. 272.

The jurisdiction to grant divorces-is purely statutory and courts upon which jurisdiction is conferred, in Alabama, arequoad hoc courts of statutory and limited jurisdiction. Martin v. Martin et al., 173 Ala. 106, 55 So. 632; Tillery v. Tillery, 217 Ala. 142, 115 So. 27.

The circuit court, as a court of equity, is always open for the transaction of business, and under the provisions…