Court Opinion

ID: 9658978
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 21:24:39.889485+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:02.609165
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On Rehearing.
SIMPSON, Justice.
The original opinion was addressed to issues involved in an appeal taken from a judgment entered on demurrer and was brought by appellants, Orkin Exterminating Company of South Alabama and Orkin Exterminating Company of North Alabama, the two Alabama corporations whose demurrers were overruled by the lower court. Respondents to the original bill and the bill as amended, as set out in the facts in the original opinion, included Orkin Exterminating Company, Inc., a Georgia Corporation, and Otto Orkin, a resident of Georgia. At the time the judgment was entered overruling demurrers filed by the two Alabama corporations these last two named respondents had not been properly served. Pending the appeal service was obtained upon them under Title 7, § 199(1), Code of 1940. Both non-resident defendants then filed motions to quash service in the Circuit Court and these motions were overruled. Thereupon these two last named appellants filed in this Court a petition for writ of certiorari, petition for writ of mandamus or petition for writ of prohibition, contending
(1) That the trial court had no authority to rule upon the motions to quash, inasmuch as they were filed after the notice of appeal was filed by the other two respondents; and (2) That inasmuch as the two Georgia respondents had filed counteraffidavits to the effect that they had not done business in Alabama and hence did not come within the purview of Title 7, § 199(1), and that the trial court erred in overruling their respective motions to quash and his ruling thereon should be stricken from the record. The appeal on demurrer and the petition for writ of certiorari, mandamus, or other remedial writ, were consolidated on submission by agreement of the parties and the court.
On rehearing, appellants now argue that we were omissive in our treatment of *312the case for not considering the petition for writ of certiorari, mandamus, or etc. Our failure to treat the question was not an inadvertence. We do not review the action of the trial court in refusing to quash the summons in such a case by extraordinary writs. The error, if any, must be raised on appeal from the final judgment. Ex parte Helveston, 267 Ala. 94, 100 So.2d 7, and cases there cited.
The writ is therefore denied.
The opinion is extended and application for rehearing is overruled.
GOODWYN, MERRILL and COLEMAN, JJ., concur.