Case ID: ala_211/html/0267-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "THOMAS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(100 South. 226)
    STATE ex rel. DAVIS, Solicitor, v. Julia SMITH, alias Borders.
    (6 Div. 35.)
    (Supreme Court of Alabama.
    April 17, 1924.)
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; William M. Walker, Judge.
    Jim Davis, of Birmingham, for appellant.
    Roderick Beddow, of Birmingham, for ap-pellee.
   THOMAS, J.

The decree of the circuit court will be affirmed as to.the findings of fact. The testimony was taken ore tenus before the judge rendering the decree. The rule of Hackett v. Cash, 196 Ala. 403, 72 South. 52, was extended to chancery causes in Andrews v. Grey, 199 Ala. 152, 74 South. 62, and Ray v. Watkins, 203 Ala. 683, 85 South. 25. As to taxing costs against complainant, the decree is corrected on authority of State ex rel. Davis, as Solicitor, v. Brown et al. (Ala. Sup.) 100 South. 224; the state’s said agent may pot be taxed with the costs.

The decree of the circuit court, in equity, is corrected and affirmed.

Corrected and affirmed.

ANDERSON, C. J., and SOMERVILLE and BOULDIN, JJ., concur. 
      
       Ante, p. 266.