Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Shuptrine

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided February 14, 1920No. 6 Div. 18PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Petition by W. W. Shuptrine for mandamus to the Honorable Horace O. Wilkinson, as Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, to require him to dismiss a pending cause concerning the custody of a minor child. For the definition of what constitutes proper jurisdiction, in a case like this, see 5 Broom, 418; 140 U. S. 268, 11 Sup. Ct. 773, 35 L. Ed. 464; 51 W. Va. 352, 41, S.- E. 351; 58 if an. 118, 48 Pac. 569, 62 Am. St. -Rep. 609; 105 Mo. 85, 16 S. W. 595, 24 Am.

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Petition by W. W. Shuptrine for mandamus to the Honorable Horace O. Wilkinson, as Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, to require him to dismiss a pending cause concerning the custody of a minor child. For the definition of what constitutes proper jurisdiction, in a case like this, see 5 Broom, 418; 140 U. S. 268, 11 Sup. Ct. 773, 35 L. Ed. 464; 51 W. Va. 352, 41, S.- E. 351; 58 if an. 118, 48 Pac. 569, 62 Am. St. -Rep. 609; 105 Mo. 85, 16 S. W. 595, 24 Am. St. Rep. 366; 71 Ala. 371; 63 Ala. 206; 27 Tex. 491, 86 Am. Dec. 643; 44 Ohio St. 497, 9 N. E. 132; 109 Ind. 79, 10 N. E. 582, 643 ; 21…

1Opinion of the Court

ANDERSON, O. J.

[1] This petitioner 'seeks to have this court direct the respondent Wilkinson, as judge of the Tenth circuit, to dismiss a pending cause upon the theory that the parties thereto had entered into an agreement as to the custody of a minor child which was the subject-matter of said proceedings, and agreeing, among other things, that said cause be dismissed. As above ■stated, said proceeding involved the custody of a minor child, and one of the then judges of the Tenth ■ circuit rendered a decree settling and determining for the time being the custody of said child, but expressly…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McDaniel v. YoungbloodSupreme Court of Alabama · 1918

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Payne v. PayneSupreme Court of Alabama · 1928
  2. Ex Parte BlackburnSupreme Court of Alabama · 1920
  3. Hall v. KirklandSupreme Court of Alabama · 1932
  4. Blackburn v. MooreSupreme Court of Alabama · 1921
  5. Bureau of Catholic Charities v. DeakleSupreme Court of Alabama · 1950

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