Ex Parte Union Planters Nat. Bank and Trust Co.

SIMPSON, Justice.

This is an original petition for mandamus to require the Honorable W. J. Haralson, as Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Alabama, to hear and determine the question of the court’s jurisdiction of the petitioner, a nonresident of Alabama and allegedly not amenable to the jurisdiction of the state courts. Prohibition was prayed for in the alternative.

One Hooker filed suit against petitioner in the circuit court of Marshall County and the process was purportedly executed May 9, 1946, “by leaving a copy of the within summons and complaint with M. F. Lusk, Guntersville, Ala.,…