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112 Ala. 449

Jones v. White

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1895

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1895-11-15

Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on January 29, 1894, by the appellant, J. B. Jones, against the appellee, Jourd White, to have enjoined the foreclosure of a mortgage on land by sale under the power contained therein, on the ground that the mortgagor, who was complainant in the bill, had paid the mortgage debt in full. On the filing of the bill a temporary injunction was granted.

Relies on Woodrow v. Hawving · Mahone v. Williams · Mooney v. Walter

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Decided 1895-11-15

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McOLELLAN, J.

¶1It was clearly within the discretion of the chancellor to set aside the submission of the *451cause entered on October 25, 1894, for final decree on report of the register and exceptions to be thereafter interposed thereto, notwithstanding there was a written agreement of counsel for such submission, the order setting it aside being made at the same term, and, indeed, on the same day, of the submission. The chancellor may have had very good reasons for this course which would not appear here — for instance, that the written agreement was made, as it appears on its face to have been made, at Fayette, but that after the submission at Jasper the parties consented to its being set aside and to another reference, because no testimony had been adduced before the register by one of the parties; and these are stated in the counter abstract to have been the facts, though, as they do not appear in the transcript, we hypothesize them in this connection merely as an illustration of the necessity for a large discretion on the part of the chancellor in matters of this kind.

¶2The other exceptions to the second report of the register are hardly stated with the clearness and particularity required by the rule in that behalf. — Code of 1886, p. 827, Rule 93 ; Mahone v. Williams, 39 Ala. 202, 221; Mooney v. Walter, 69 Ala. 75.

¶3But we have examined the evidence upon which the register formulated his report; and, to say the least, we cannot affirm that the chancellor erred in overruling the exceptions and confirming the report. The evidence •before the register, consisting for the most part of the oral testimony of witnesses, and being presented to the chancellor and here in written form, the rule laid down in Woodrow v. Hawving, 105 Ala. 240, and also the general rule to' be observed in reviewing findings of fact by the register on reference, Mahone v. Williams, supra,required the chancellor and require us to indulge all reasonable presumptions in favor of the register's decision upon questions of fact, such as those now under consideration, and not to reverse it unless clearly satisfied that it is wrong. And certainly the application of this rule in the present case must result in approval of the register’s findings and the chancellor’s confirmation of his report.

¶4This conclusion would be reached if the deposition of White taken on written interrogatories were not and had not been in the case. So that appellant can take noth*452ing by bis exception to the use of that deposition before tbe register.

¶5Affirmed.

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