Hendricks v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit court of Dallas county. Proceedings under the “act to amepd an act entitled an act to encourage the building of public mills, and directing the duties of millers,” — approved December the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and twelve.
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Error to the Circuit court of Dallas county. Proceedings under the “act to amepd an act entitled an act to encourage the building of public mills, and directing the duties of millers,” — approved December the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and twelve. On the twenty-second day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, William Hendricks sued out of the clerk’s office of the County court of Dallas county’, a writ of ad quod damnum, which writ commanded the sheriff of said county to summon aud em-panuel seven freeholders or landholders, to meet on the twenty-ninth day of November, following,…
1Opinion of the CourtGgldthwaite, J.
Before commencing the examination of the questions of law, which arise from the record before us, it becomes necessary to determine in what light we are to view the evidence on which the cause was decided in the County court, and which was certified in the record, and acted on in the Circuit court.. The plaintiff in error insists, that the- evidence could alone have been spread on the record by bill of exceptions, and as none was taken, it was improperly certified to the appellate court. On the other hand, the defendant in error asserts, the Circuit court to be a forumr in which this cause…
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