Case ID: ala_126/html/0677-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Haralson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

New South B. & L. Association v. Chaffin.
    Appeal from Pike Chancery Court.
    Heard before the II011. Wm. L. Parks.
    A. C. Worthy, for appellant.
    M. N. Carlisle, for appellee.
   The bill in this case ivas filed by the appellee, S. A. Chaffin, against the New South Building & Loan Association, and sought to have a note and mortgage executed by the complainant to the defendant set aside and annulled on the ground of usury.

On February 8, 1899, a decree pro confesso was rendered against the defendant for want of an answer, and on the same day, the cause ivas submitted and heard and a final decree rendered. It is from this decree that the present appeal is prosecuted. On this appeal it is held that the rendition of a decree on the same day as a decree pro confesso is forbidden by the statute, and therefore the decree of the court must be reversed and the cause remanded.

Beversed and remanded.

Opinion by

Haralson, J.