Ex parte Dickens
Supreme Court of Alabama
Original petition in Supreme Oonrt. Charles O. Dickens was imprisoned as for a contempt for a failure to comply with certain decrees of the Mobile Chancery Court, and petitions for certiorari to review the proceedings leading up to his imprisonment. Certiorari is the proper remedy in this case. — McAllilley v. Horton, 75 Ala. 492; Camelen v. Bloch, 65 Ala. 239; A. G. 8. v. Christian, 82 Ala. 309; Stanfield v. Dallas County, 80 Ala. 290; Pub.
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Original petition in Supreme Oonrt. Charles O. Dickens was imprisoned as for a contempt for a failure to comply with certain decrees of the Mobile Chancery Court, and petitions for certiorari to review the proceedings leading up to his imprisonment. Certiorari is the proper remedy in this case. — McAllilley v. Horton, 75 Ala. 492; Camelen v. Bloch, 65 Ala. 239; A. G. 8. v. Christian, 82 Ala. 309; Stanfield v. Dallas County, 80 Ala. 290; Pub. Co. v. Press Assn., 102 Ala. 483 ; Beech n. Lavender, 138 Ala. 410; Ese parte Nat. L. Mfg. Co., 41 South. 10; Benton v. Taylor, 46 Ala. 388; Ex parte…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
This is a proceeding by certiorari, from this court, seeking to have set aside certain orders of the chancery court under which the petitioner is imprisoned for contempt of court.
The first question which arises is whether or not the •petitioner can have relief by this proceeding. “By the ■common law the power is vested in the Supreme Court to review the orders, proceedings, and judgments of all inferior courts and tribunals, and pass upon the question of their jurisdiction and decisions on questions of law; but, in the absence of some statute conferring the power of reviewing the…
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