Johnson v. Brown

ALMON, Justice.

This is an appeal by Mattie L. Johnson, one of the defendants in the circuit court, from a final judgment which reformed a deed.

A district judge in the circuit was appointed to sit on the circuit court bench in this case by assignment of the presiding circuit judge. Rule 13, Alabama Rules of Judicial Administration.

Mattie Johnson seeks a reversal of the judgment, contending that 1) the trial court committed error in refusing to grant a jury trial; 2) the judgment is against the great weight of the evidence; and 3) Rule 13, ARJA, is unconstitutional.

On February 15, 1955, Lonnie…