Ex Parte Myers

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a petition to this Court for a writ of mandamus to the Judge of the Circuit Court, in Equity, in Walker County, commanding him to vacate, annul and set aside a decree rendered by him December 7, 1944, and to expunge the same from the records of the court, for that the judge had no power to render the decree. That is the correct method to obtain such relief. The question therefore is whether the judge had the power to render such a decree.

On August 29, 1944, on issue joined by bill and answer, and submitted on evidence taken before the court, a decree was rendered, one…