Alabama State Bar v. Watson

The majority hold that the only circuit court having “jurisdiction” to entertain the application for the writ of prohibition to the Alabama State Bar is the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, that this lack of jurisdiction in the Madison Court is a matter of which this court must take notice ex mero motu, and that having taken such notice this court must hold the judgment against appellant to be void although the lack of jurisdiction is not assigned or argued as error.

As I understand the cases cited by the majority, none of them holds that Montgomery County is the only county having…