Case ID: ala_225/html/0549-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ANDERSON, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

144 So. 21
    NATIONAL SURETY CO. v. RUDDER et al.
    8 Div. 417.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    Oct. 6, 1932.
    Rehearing Denied Nov. 10, 1932.
    
      Ball & Ball, of Montgomery, for appellant.
    D. P. Wimberly, of Seottsboro, and Haralson & Son, of .Ft. Payne, for appellees.
   ANDERSON, C. J.

This appeal was taken from a decree of the circuit court overruling a demurrer to a petition to the said court, pending the administration of the estate, for the rendition of a decree against the sureties of the executors against whom a decree had been rendered, and for the issuance of an execution against said sureties as one had been issued against the principals and returned no property found.

The petition in question is not such a bill in equity or cross-bill as authorizes an appeal from a ruling on a demurrer thereto as provided by section 6079 of the Code of 1923, and this appeal must be dismissed. It is sufficient to suggest, however, that an appeal was taken in the main case, which has been this day affirmed, and the trial court has the power to render a decree against the surety and order execution upon a return of the execution nulla bona against the principals. Section 6052 of the Code; Steele v. Graves, 68 Ala. 17; Martin v. Tally, 72 Ala. 30. This rule or statute is applicable to the administration of estates in chancery as well as the probate court.

Appeal dismissed;

GARDNER, THOMAS, and FOSTER, JJ., ! concur.