Shell Petroleum Corporation v. Bruce

BROWN, Justice.

The statement signed by the justice of the peace, and sent up and filed in the circuit court along with the original papers, under the provisions of section 8780 of the Code of 1923, is a part of the record proper, and evidences the course of the proceedings in the cause before the justice of the peace. Wolfe v. Parham, 18 Ala. 441; Hardee v. Abraham, 133 Ala. 341, 32 So. 595.

The statement shows that only the plea in abatement was filed. No objection to its filing appears to have been made on the trial had in the justice of the peace court, and the plea appears to have been…