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104 Ala. 552

Torrey v. Slaughter

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1894

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1894-11-15

Tried before the Hon. James T. Jones. The facts of this case are identical with the case of Torrey v. Bishop, supra, ante, p. 548, with one exception. After the death of the defendant Forbes, the cause was revived against H. W. Slaughter, as the administrator of the estate of E. Forbes, deceased, and the heirs of the deceased. The only difference between the facts of this case and the facts of the case of T'orreyv.

Decided 1894-11-15

McCLELLAN, J.

¶1The circuit court in this case, having continued the cause at the instance o.f the plaintiff, upon the expressed condition that the plaintiff pay the costs accruing at that term before the next term of the court, and the plaintiff having failed to comply with this order, might well have dismissed the case of its own motion ; and the fact that the dismissal was moved for by one who is referred to in the entry as the attorney for a defendant in another case, from which this one had just been severed, can not inject error into a judgment which the court was authorized to enter without motion.

¶2The other questions presented by this record are identical with those which have been considered in the case of Torrey Extr. &c. v. Bishop, ante, p. 548; and upon the authority of that case, with what is said above, this case is affirmed.

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