Legal Opinion

De Soto Coal, Mining & Development Co. v. Hill

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 21, 1914PublishedCited by 30 opinions

Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. H. A. Sharpe. Bill by the Be Soto Coal Mining & Development Company against Jim Hill and another, to enjoin a judgment at law. Prom a decree sustaining demurrers to the bill, complainant appeals.

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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. H. A. Sharpe. Bill by the Be Soto Coal Mining & Development Company against Jim Hill and another, to enjoin a judgment at law. Prom a decree sustaining demurrers to the bill, complainant appeals. The bill alleges that: Orator is a corporation existing under the laws of the state of Alabama, with its principal office at Birmingham, and that defendants are respectively, Jim Hill, a minor, and H. J. Hill, an adult, who acted as his next friend in procuring the judgment herein sought to be enjoined; that orator is authorized by its charter to…

1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.

By this bill appellant (complainant in the court below) seeks to enjoin the enforcement of a judgment recovered against it by respondent in a suit at law in the city court of Birmingham, and affirmed by this court.—De Soto Coal Mining & Development Co. v. Hill, 179 Ala. 186, 60 South. 583. The averments of the bill as amended and the demurrers interposed thereto will sufficiently appear in the report of the case. Demurrer to the bill as amended was sustained, hence this appeal.

*672As grounds for relief, and in support of the equity of the bill, complainant seems to rely upon the averments of…

2Cases cited25 opinions

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  2. Embry v. PalmerSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  3. Evans v. WilhiteSupreme Court of Alabama · 1910
  4. Waring v. LewisSupreme Court of Alabama · 1875
  5. Crim v. HandleySupreme Court of the United States · 1877

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3Cited by30 opinions

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  3. Edmondson v. JonesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1920
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  5. Hooke v. HookeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1946

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