Jones v. Moore

The case is reported on first appeal as 212 Ala. 248, 102 So. 200. The register held a reference in response to former decree so affirmed, and ascertained the amount required ip redeem several securities. The report was duly read and ordered to lie over for the purpose of exceptions— to which exceptions were not taken — and the report was confirmed.

The earlier decisions were to the effect that a report, though erroneous, on its face, “may be inquired into without any exception taken to the register’s report.” Levert v. Redwood, 9 Port. 79, 94; Lang v. Brown, 21 Ala. 179, 56 Am. Dec. 244. And…