Legal Opinion

Snellings v. Builders' Supply Co.

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 15, 1934No. 5 Div. 152, 154, 155, 157, 158PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FOSTER, Justice.

AVhile this court incidentally observed in Montgomery Light & Water Power Co. v. Thombs, 204 Ala 678, 684, 87 So. 205, that section 6153, Code, was intended to penalize frivolous or delay appeals, it was not intended to assert that such was its only purpose, and that the province of this court was to determine whether an appeal was frivolous or for delay so as to authorize the statutory damages, there provided, when the facts stated in section 6153 are shown by the record. The conditions are (1) a moneyed judgment or decree; (2) that it is superseded on appeal by bond; (3) and…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. MillonasSupreme Court of Alabama · 1921
  2. Montgomery Light Water Power Co. v. ThombsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1920
  3. Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bashinsky, Case & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1928
  4. New York Life Ins. Co. v. ReeseSupreme Court of Alabama · 1918
  5. Alabama Great Southern Ry. Co. v. NorrellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1932

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Brown Mech. Contractors, Inc. v. Centennial Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1983
  2. Atlanta, Birmingham Coast R. Co. v. CarySupreme Court of Alabama · 1948
  3. Bevelon D. Locke v. Allstate Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
  4. Central of Georgia Railway Company v. SteedSupreme Court of Alabama · 1971
  5. Chapman v. Rivers Construction CompanySupreme Court of Alabama · 1969

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