Ex parte Dowe
Supreme Court of Alabama
Application for a mandamus, or other appropriate writ, to the Hon. Huriosco Aüstill, chancellor of the southern chancery division, presiding in the chancery court at Montgomery. The material facts on which the application is based, are fully stated in tbe opinion of the court.
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Application for a mandamus, or other appropriate writ, to the Hon. Huriosco Aüstill, chancellor of the southern chancery division, presiding in the chancery court at Montgomery. The material facts on which the application is based, are fully stated in tbe opinion of the court. The chancellor having refused to take notice of, or to entertain the petition presented to him, the former decisions of this court show that mandamus is the proper remedy. — 2 Brick, Dig. 239. The petition of Becker, the husband and owner of tbe property, to have the debt paid, and the decretal order of the court, that…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
Caroline Becker, by her next friend, filed her bill in the chancery court at Montgomery in December 1868, against her husband Nicholas Becker — alleging that by reason of intemperance, he had become unfit for the management of his estate — had a wife (complainant) and several minor children, who, from his conduct, were in danger of being brought to poverty and want, and had a considerable estate, chiefly in Montgomery — and praying that this estate be preserved from .further waste, that a trustee be appointed by the court to take charge of and manage it, and for general relief. Whereupon the…
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