Ex Parte Griffith

In addition to the reasons given in opinion in Ex parte J. B. Helm, 95 South. 546, 1 filed December 18, 1919, I wish further to say that the authorities cited by Mr. Justice SOMERVILLE, to the effect that the recitals of the chancery decree were sufficient to show the existence of jurisdiction in the premises, had not for consideration decrees for sale of property for taxes. The ease of Wyatt’s Adm’r v. Rambo, 29 Ala. 510, 68 Am. Dec. 89, was an order for the sale of slaves under the decree of the orphans’ court; Cox v. Johnson, 80 Ala. 22, dealt with the recitals of a decree of the chancery…