Shrader v. Walker
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of Error to ithe Court of Chancery sitting in Shelby. The defendant in error, as the administrator of Agnus Black, recovered a judgment against James Clark, in the Circuit Court of Benton; Clark filed his bill in the Chancery Court, which was then holden at Talladega, for the county of Benton among others, obtained an injunction, and gave a bond for the prosecution of the same, which was deposited with the Register of that Court, to which the name of the plaintiff in…
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Writ of Error to ithe Court of Chancery sitting in Shelby. The defendant in error, as the administrator of Agnus Black, recovered a judgment against James Clark, in the Circuit Court of Benton; Clark filed his bill in the Chancery Court, which was then holden at Talladega, for the county of Benton among others, obtained an injunction, and gave a bond for the prosecution of the same, which was deposited with the Register of that Court, to which the name of the plaintiff in error was subscribed, as one of the sureties. It is alledged that the bill of Clark, upon a reorganization of the Chancery…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
The act of December, 1841, divides the State into forty Chancery districts, and provides that all causes pending in the Chancery Courts, at the time of its passage, shall, on the application of either complainant or defendant, be trans*246ferred to the district in which the defendant resides, &c. Provided, That it shall be lawful for all causes now pending in any Chancery Court, to be and continue in such Court, and be there disposed of, in the same manner as they would have been, if this act had not been passed; unless an order be made for their transfer to some other Court, as is herein above…
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