Allen v. Allen

In Johnson v. Riddle & Ellis et al., 204 Ala. 408, 85 So. 701, 703, the statutes, now sections 6574, 6575 of the Code of 1923, authorizing the judge before whom an equity case is pending, “at any time before final decree (to) cause any or all of the witnesses to be examined orally before him in open court,” and. providing- “the judge trying the case must require the court reporter or some other competent stenographer, to take down the testimony, as delivered, and such judge may require such testimony to be transcribed in typewriting, and certified to by the stenographer and file the same in…