Price v. Stone
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Mobile. The record in this case having been lost or mislaid, tbe name of the presiding judge in the court below cannot be stated.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Mobile. The record in this case having been lost or mislaid, tbe name of the presiding judge in the court below cannot be stated. The facts of the case, as gathered from the opinion and briefs, are these : The action was brought by James W. Stone and others, owners of the steamboat Flirt, against Caleb Price and others, as sureties on the official bond of M. D. Grinnell, late sheriff of Mobile, and sought to hold the defendants liable for the loss of the boat, which was accidentally destroyed by fire, while in the possession of said sheriff, as hereinafter…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, C. J.
— Only such questions as are stated in the assignments of error, and insisted on in the argument of the counsel for the appellant, will be noticed in this opinion. Such is the uniform practice of this court. Rev. Code, Rule 1, p. 816 j 10 Ala. 109; 32 Ala. 481; 36 Ala. 721; 37 Ala. 49; 38 Ala. 318. The errors specified in the assignment, and insisted on in the appellants’ brief, are the overruling of the demurrer to the complaint, on account of a supposed misjoinder of counts, and the charges given by the court, which were excepted to, as well as the refusal of the several charges asked by…
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