Legal Opinion

Ex parte Henderson

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1887PublishedCited by 8 opinions

TMs was an application to the Justices of the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to Chancellor McSpaclden requiring him to entertain and pass upon a petition filed in the Talladega Chancery Court praying a correction of the note of testimony in a cause now in the Supreme Court on appeal from said lower court.

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TMs was an application to the Justices of the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to Chancellor McSpaclden requiring him to entertain and pass upon a petition filed in the Talladega Chancery Court praying a correction of the note of testimony in a cause now in the Supreme Court on appeal from said lower court. There was filed in the lower court a motion by amicus curke to strike the petition from the files, and a demurrer; which motion and demurrer were filed by the attorneys for the appellees in the cause appealed to this court.

1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.

This is an application for mandamus to Hon. S. K. Mc/S'padden, chancellor of the N. E. Division, sitting in and for Talladega county, requiring and commanding him to entertain and pass upon the petition of relators, praying a correction of the note of testimony in the case of John Henderson, now revived in the names of his heirs-at-law, against Charles Pelham et al., lately pending and de’cided in said court, and now in'this court by appeal. A petition was filed in the court below, praying for such correction. The chancellor sustained a demurrer to the petition and dismissed it, on. the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Steele v. County CommissionersSupreme Court of Alabama · 1887
  2. Moore v. LesueurSupreme Court of Alabama · 1858
  3. Stephens v. Norris, Stodder & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1848
  4. Norris v. CottrellSupreme Court of Alabama · 1852

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Thompson v. WilsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1932
  2. Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board v. State Ex Rel. KrasnerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1945
  3. Ory-Cohen v. TaylorSupreme Court of Alabama · 1922
  4. Mauney v. Electric Const. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1924
  5. O'Bannon v. O'BannonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1952

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