Opinion ID: 1873221
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Heading: On the Motion to Dismiss the Appeal

Text: Appellee has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, taking the position that since appeals from rulings on demurrers have been abolished by Act No. 72, Acts of the Legislature of Alabama of 1961, Extra Session, it follows that appeals from rulings on motions to dissolve temporary injunctions must have been abolished too, since in order for the injunction to have been dissolved the court would have to reach the conclusion that the bill was without equity. Appellee takes the position that the present appeal is actually an attempt to have the court pass upon the question of whether there is equity in the bill and as such is an appeal from an interlocutory decree. We disagree. Act No. 72, supra, did not repeal Tit. 7, § 757, Code of Ala. 1940 which provides for appeals from a ruling on a motion to dissolve a temporary injunction. See also WGOK, Inc. v. WMOZ, Inc., 275 Ala. 264, 154 So.2d 22. If there is no equity in the bill, then the refusal to grant the motion to dissolve the temporary injunction is error. In that sense, appellee is right that the motion to dissolve tests the sufficiency of the bill as does a general demurrer. He is wrong, however, in his assertion that the judgment denying the motion to dissolve will not support an appeal. Tit. 7, § 757, supra.