Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Brown

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 28, 1925No. 7 Div. 534PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.

In an action by Isaac Brown against Victoria Brown, a married woman, for an assault and battery, the plaintiff recovered a judgment for damages in the sum of $750.

The defendant filed her appeal to the Court of Appeals without giving a supersedeas bond, having made the required affidavit that she is unable to give such security.

On motion of the plaintiff, the Court of Appeals, following a dictum in the case of Ex parte Johns, 209 Ala. 638, 96 So. 888, dismissed the appeal for want of a bond.

In Ex parte Johns, supra, the appeal was from an order denying a motion for the enforcement of a decree…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Ex parte Tower Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1893
  2. Ravisies v. Stoddart & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1858
  3. Ex Parte JohnsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1923
  4. Cahalan v. Monroe, Smaltz & Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1880

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Hildebrand v. First Nat. Bank of FairfieldSupreme Court of Alabama · 1930
  2. Scott v. ShepherdSupreme Court of Alabama · 1927
  3. Cobb v. Reed Phosphate Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1929
  4. Ex Parte JonesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1928
  5. Rosser v. RosserSupreme Court of Alabama · 1954

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