Johnson v. Pugh

BROWN, Justice.

This appeal is from an interlocutory decretal o.rder of the Circuit Court, sitting in equity, sustaining the defendants’ demurrers to the bill. The term “demurrers” is used advisedly. Speaking generally, a demurrer is a single entity and if any one ground of the demurrer is well taken the demurrer is due to be sustained. McDonald et al. v. Pearson, 114 Ala. 630, 21 So. 534. However, the, statute recognizes the general demurrer “that there is no equity in the bill” as a separate entity from a demurrer on specific grounds. The general demurrer was re-established in lieu of a…