In Re One Chevrolet Automobile

Section 11 of the Constitution of 1901, preserving the right of trial by jury, does not extend to causes unknown to the common law or to the statutory law as it existed at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. This provision extends only to those cases in which the right existed at the time of the adoption of same. Costello v. Feagin, 162 Ala. 191, 50 So. 134; Taliaferro v. Lee, 97 Ala. 92, 13 So. 125; Boring v. Williams, 17 Ala. 510; Chambers v. Stringer, 62 Ala. 569; State v. Bley, 162 Ala. 243, 50 So. 263. Section 13 of the Prohibition Act of 1919 (Laws 1919, p. 13) creates a cause…