Palliser v. Home Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas H. Smith. Bill by Malazie M. Palliser against the Home Telephone Company. From a decree dismissing the bill complainant appeals.
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Appeal from Mobile Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. Thomas H. Smith. Bill by Malazie M. Palliser against the Home Telephone Company. From a decree dismissing the bill complainant appeals. Appellant assigns as error the decree made May 10th, in that, by that decree appellant was not allowed to take testimony; and also assigns as error, the previous interlocutory order of April 20th, overruling appellant’s var cation application for extension of time to take testi-money, and cite the following in support of siicb assignment: 20 Enc. PI. & Pr. 607, 657; Prestwood v. Watson, 111 Ala. 604; see…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
The original bill in this cause was filed December 30, 1905, by appellant as a stockholder in the defendant corporation, and sought to set aside, as fraudulent certain issues of'stocks and bonds. After an appeal to this court from rulings on demurrer (Palliser v. Home Telephone Co., 152 Ala. 440, 44 South. 575), the bill received its final shape by an amendment which was allowed on January 13, 1908. Thereafter *343interrogatories were propounded to- the defendant under the statute authorizing the examination of adverse parties, and these were answered on May 31, 1909. November 11, 1909, the…
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