Franklin v. Georgia Casualty Co.

On Rehearing.

BROWN, J.

The jurisdiction conferred by section 8377 of the Code on courts of equity to enforce liability against insurance carriers is statutory and limited, and, the averments of the bill not making a case within this statutory jurisdiction, the only decree disposing of the ease that the court was authorized to render was one dismissing the bill. Williams v. Nelson et al., 22S Mass. 191, 117 N. E. 189, Ann. Cas. 1918D, 538; Tillery v. Tillery, 217 Ala. 142, 115 So. 27; Continental Auto Insurance Underwriters v. Menuskin et al., 222 Ala. 370, 132 So. 883.

The decree of the court…