From Casetext: Smarter Legal Research

LANE v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CITY OF ELBA

Supreme Court of Alabama
Mar 24, 1960
118 So. 2d 725 (Ala. 1960)

Opinion

4 Div. 17.

December 17, 1959. Rehearing Denied March 24, 1960.

Appeal from the Circuit Court, Coffee County, Eris F. Paul, J.

J. Hubert Farmer, Dothan, for appellant.

Joe C. Cassady, Enterprise, for appellee.


The Housing Authority of the City of Elba filed its bill in the Circuit Court of Coffee County, in Equity, Elba Division, against Earnest Lane seeking injunctive relief, temporary and permanent.

On the day that the bill was filed, the Circuit Judge ordered that a temporary injunction issue as prayed upon the complainant entering into bond in the penal sum of $1,000. The bond was executed and the temporary injunction was issued.

Thereafter the respondent filed his motion to dissolve the temporary injunction. The motion to dissolve was denied and the respondent appealed to this court.

The appeal is authorized by § 757, Title 7, Code 1940. Corte v. State, 259 Ala. 536, 67 So.2d 782.

The one assignment of error reads:

"1. The Court erred in overruling defendant's demurrers to the bill of complaint in this cause and denying defendant's motion to dissolve the temporary writ of injunction issued in this case."

An assignment of error which embraces more than one ruling must, to be sustainable, be good as to all. Seaboard Air Line Ry. v. Hubbard, 142 Ala. 546, 38 So. 750; Brent v. Baldwin, 160 Ala. 635, 49 So. 343; Continental Casualty Co. v. Ogburn, 175 Ala. 357, 57 So. 852; Smith v. Roney, 182 Ala. 540, 62 So. 753; Globe Rutgers Fire Ins. Co. v. Jones, 213 Ala. 656, 106 So. 172.

The demurrer to the bill, if such demurrer was filed, is not incorporated in the record. The record shows no decree overruling demurrer to the bill.

The assignment of error being joint and presenting nothing for review as to the demurrer, must be held bad in its entirety. A similar holding was made in Green v. Waynesboro Motor Co., 217 Ala. 348, 349, 116 So. 363, 364, where we said:

"The first assignment of error is that:

" 'The court committed reversible error in sustaining plaintiffs' demurrers to pleas 1, 2, and 3, filed by the defendant, John A. Green.'

"The demurrer to plea 1, if such demurrer was filed, is not incorporated in the record, and for this reason the assignment cannot be sustained as to plea 1. City of Birmingham v. Muller, 197 Ala. 554, 73 So. 30; Alabama Chemical Co. v. Niles, 156 Ala. 298, 47 So. 239. And it is the settled rule here that an assignment of errors embracing several rulings, to be sustainable, must be good as to all. Bobo v. Tally, 213 Ala. 83, 104 So. 32."

The decree of the trial court is affirmed.

Affirmed.

STAKELY, MERRILL and COLEMAN, JJ., concur.

On Application for Rehearing.

Motion to set aside submission denied.

Application for rehearing overruled.

LIVINGSTON, C. J., and LAWSON, STAKELY and MERRILL, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

LANE v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CITY OF ELBA

Supreme Court of Alabama
Mar 24, 1960
118 So. 2d 725 (Ala. 1960)
Case details for

LANE v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CITY OF ELBA

Case Details

Full title:Earnest LANE v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF the CITY OF ELBA

Court:Supreme Court of Alabama

Date published: Mar 24, 1960

Citations

118 So. 2d 725 (Ala. 1960)
118 So. 2d 725

Citing Cases

Logan v. O'Barr

We have heretofore shown that we are of the opinion that the court did not err in overruling demurrer to Plea…

Powell Ambulance Service v. Cooley

An assignment of error which embraces more than one ruling must, to be sustainable, be good as to all. Lane…