Gay, Hardie & Co. v. Brierfield Coal & Iron Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed August 19, 1889, in Colbert county, by Gay, Hardie & Co., a mercantile partnership doing-business in the city of Montgomery, as creditors of the Brier-field Coal & Iron Company, in behalf of themselves and •other creditors who might come in and make themselves parties, against said corporation, and against Wm.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed August 19, 1889, in Colbert county, by Gay, Hardie & Co., a mercantile partnership doing-business in the city of Montgomery, as creditors of the Brier-field Coal & Iron Company, in behalf of themselves and •other creditors who might come in and make themselves parties, against said corporation, and against Wm. L. Chambers, as trustee for the mortgage bondholders under appointment by the Circuit Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama; and sought relief as…
1Opinion
[On Application for Reiiearing.]
Pettus & Pettus, for the appellees. — (1.) ‘‘It is a doctrine of law too long established to require the citation of authorities, that where a court has j urisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause, and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, till reversed, is regarded as binding on every other court; and that where the jurisdiction of a court, and the right of a plaintiff to prosecute his suit in it, have once attached, that right can not be arrested or taken away by proceedings in any other court. These…
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