Case ID: ala_206/html/0088-01.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

(89 South. 296)
    DONALD et al., v. COTTON STATES TIRE & RUBBER CO.
    (6 Div. 415.)
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    May 19, 1921.
    Appeal and error <§=356 — Statute declaring appeal in 30 days mandatory.
    Code 1907, § 4866, ffe mandatory, and the Supreme Court must dismiss an appeal from a judgment, sustaining a demurrer to a petition for a writ of prohibition, where it was taken and perfected more than 30 days after judgment.
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County ; Romaine Boyd, Judge.
    Petition of C. J. Donald and J. N. Carmicheal, as sureties on a forthcoming bond of the Fairfield Tire Company, for writ of prohibition restraining the judge of the municipal court, the constable and the Cotton States Tire & Rubber Company from executing a fieri facias, on the grounds of want of jurisdiction in the court to render the judgment on which same is based. From a judgment denying the writ, the petitioners appeal.
    Appeal dismissed.
    C. B. Powell and Luthér Patrick, both of Birmingham, for appellants.
    Counsel discuss the merits of the petition, and the want of jurisdiction qf the trial court to render the judgment, but they do not discuss the point decided.
    Clarence Mullins, of Birmingham, for appellee.
    The appeal was not perfected in time and should be dismissed. Section 4866, Code 1907; 129 Ala. 599, 31 South. 31.
   THOMAS, J.

The petition was for writ of prohibition against plaintiff Cotton States Tire & Rubber Company, Thomas Lea, as judge of the municipal court of Birmingham, and J. E. Matlock, as constable of precinct 12 in Jefferson county.

The judgment sustaining demurrer to the petition was rendered on November 13, 1920, and the appeal taken and perfected on March 25, 1921 — more than 30 days after the final judgment was rendered. Code, § 4866; Wells Amusement Co. v. Eros, 204 Ala. 239, 85 South. 692; Shackleford v. State, 204 Ala. 362, 85 South. 786; City of Birmingham v. Sou. Bell Tel. Co., 203 Ala. 251, 82 South. 519. The statute is mandatory. Lusk v. Capehart, 129 Ala. 599, 30 South. 31; State ex rel. Crow v. Crook, Judge, 123 Ala. 657, 27 South. 334; Ireland v. Brown, 6 Ala. App. 235, 60 South. 559. The court is without jurisdiction to consider this appeal, nothing being presented for review. It follows that the appeal is dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.

ANDERSON, C. J., and McCLELLAN and SOMERVILLE, JJ., concur.