Legal Opinion

Cobbs v. Norville

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 21, 1933No. 1 Div. 758PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

THOMAS, Justice.

The reports of the several phases or litigable questions as to the parties and the lands in question are Seeberg v. Norville et al., 202 Ala. 417, 80 So. 621; Id., 204 Ala. 20, 85 So. 505; and Norville et al. v. Seeberg, 205 Ala. 96, 87 So. 164. The attack now made is upon the last decree and the effect thereof.

It is established in this jurisdiction that appellate courts will indulge every intendment to sustain judgments and decrees of circuit courts — a court of superior and general jurisdiction — in the exercise of their general powers, and that only direct impeachment is…

2Cases cited37 opinions

  1. Southern Pacific Railroad v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. Clark v. WhitfieldSupreme Court of Alabama · 1925
  3. Crowson v. CodySupreme Court of Alabama · 1926
  4. Driggers v. CassadySupreme Court of Alabama · 1882
  5. Phillips v. Sipsey Coal Mining Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1928

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3Cited by30 opinions

  1. Brown v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1990
  2. Fife v. Pioneer Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1939
  3. Suggs v. Alabama Power CompanySupreme Court of Alabama · 1960
  4. Dean v. Coosa County Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1936
  5. Merchants Nat. Bank of Mobile v. MorrisSupreme Court of Alabama · 1949

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