Local Union 18, Marine & Shipbuilding Workers v. Smith

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal, by petitioners for intervention, from a decree granting a motion to strike their petition and denying intervention.

The decree appealed from does not tax the costs, and, for that reason, the appeal must be dismissed. City of Birmingham v. Hallmark, 266 Ala. 582, 98 So.2d 15.

Prior to submission, however, petitioners .filed in this court their petition which prays, in the alternative, for an alternative writ of mandamus to review the decree complained of if appeal does not lie. This court, in City of Birmingham v. Hallmark, supra, stated that a decree such as…