Legal Opinion

Ex parte DuBose

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1875PublishedCited by 11 opinions

This was an application for mandamus to compel tbe judge of tbe circuit court of Marengo to fix the amount of a bond to operate a supersedeas of a judgment for recovery of lands, The facts are fully set forth in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.

At the fall term, 1874, of the circuit court of Marengo county, the heirs of E. K. Carlisle, deceased, obtained a judgment, upon tbe verdict of a jury, against petitioner and others in an action in the, nature of ejectment for the recovery of certain lands in that county. By a writ of execution thereon; defendants had been put out of tbe possession of the land in December, 1874, and plaintiffs put into possession. All the costs in tbe cause bad been paid by some of petitioner’s co-defendants, and as to the $5,000 * damages awarded against him and one of his co-defendants, the return of the…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. Medical Soc. of Mobile County v. WalkerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1944
  2. State ex rel. Case v. LyonsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1904
  3. Stewart v. Wilson Printing Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1924
  4. Taylor v. KolbSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
  5. Roach v. State ex rel. AlbrittonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1905

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