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Ex Parte Abercrombie

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided February 18, 1965No. 8 Div. 162PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LAWSON, Justice.

This is an original petition addressed to this court and seeks to review by certiorari a decree of the Circuit Court of Marshall County, in Equity, adjudging petitioners in contempt of that court, in that they willfully failed, refused and declined to comply with an order of the court to deliver two minor children into the custody of their paternal grandparents. The petitioners here are the maternal grandparents of the children.

The decree adjudging the petitioners to ■be in contempt further provided:

“ * * * and the said O. L. Abercrom-bie and Bessie Louise Abercrombie are…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Ex parte DickensSupreme Court of Alabama · 1909
  2. Ex Parte HillSupreme Court of Alabama · 1935
  3. Wetzel v. Bessemer Bar Ass'n.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1942
  4. Fields v. FairfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  5. State Ex Rel. Patterson v. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored PeopleSupreme Court of Alabama · 1956

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. State v. ThomasSupreme Court of Alabama · 1989
  2. State Ex Rel. Payne v. Empire Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1977
  3. Reeder v. ReederCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1978
  4. Wilson v. FreemanCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1979
  5. Carroll v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1977

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