Ex Parte Barger

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

This is an original petition in this Court seeking the issuance of a mandamus writ against the Judge of the Intermediate Civil Court of Birmingham for the purpose of reviewing a ruling in that court sustaining demurrer to petitioner’s plea in abatement filed by him as defendant in a cause pending in said court.

This Intermediate Court was established by local act in 1935. Local Acts, 1935, p. 219. The jurisdiction as to amount is limited to three hundred dollars, and appeal authorized to be taken to the Circuit Court of the County. § 8, Local Acts, supra. Likewise…