Eagle Iron Co. v. Malone

Citation149 Ala. 367,42 So. 734
PartiesEAGLE IRON CO. v. MALONE.
Decision Date19 December 1906
CourtSupreme Court of Alabama

Appeal from Circuit Court, Marshall County; W. W. Haralson, Judge.

Action by James Malone against the Eagle Iron Company and another. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant company appeals. Reversed and remanded.

The plaintiff (appellee here) sued the defendant appellant and one Stewart in the circuit court of Marshall county, and at the trial discontinued as to Stewart, whereupon the defendant the Eagle Iron Company offered to interpose a plea in abatement, setting out that they had no office, agent, or place of business in Marshall, and that the court was without jurisdiction to entertain the cause further. The court refused to allow the defendant the Eagle Iron Company to interpose this plea, stating that it came too late. The defendant Stewart was a resident citizen of Marshall county.

John A. Lusk, for appellant.

Street & Isbell, for appellee.

TYSON, C.J.

After the complaint was amended by striking out the name of Stewart as a party defendant, the remaining defendant should have been allowed to file the plea in abatement proposed by it. Eagle Iron Co. v. Baugh (Ala.) 41 So. 663. There can, of course, be no trial of the cause on its merits until this plea, when filed, is disposed of. We will, therefore, not consider any other assignment of error.

Reversed and remanded.

HARALSON, SIMPSON, and DENSON, JJ., concur.

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  • W. S. Fowler Rental Equipment Co. v. Skipper
    • United States
    • Alabama Supreme Court
    • July 25, 1963
    ...even though he had pleaded to the merits of the original complaint. Eagle Iron Co. v. Baugh, 147 Ala. 613, 41 So. 663; Eagle Iron Co. v. Malone, 149 Ala. 367, 42 So. 734; Ex parte Dunlap, 209 Ala. 453, 96 So. The Fowler Company argues that when, on March 3, 1961, Skipper, the plaintiff, by ......
  • St. Louis & S.F.R. Co. v. Sutton
    • United States
    • Alabama Supreme Court
    • June 9, 1910
    ... ... Davis, 2 Ala. 24; L. & N. R. R. Co ... v. Barker, 96 Ala. 435, 11 So. 453; Eagle v ... Baugh, 147 Ala. 613, 41 So. 663; Eagle Iron Co. v ... Malone, 149 Ala. 367, 42 So ... ...
  • T.S. Faulk & Co. v. Hobbie Grocery Co.
    • United States
    • Alabama Supreme Court
    • April 16, 1912
    ... ... cannot arise ... The ... cases of Eagle Iron Co. v. Baugh, 147 Ala. 613, 41 ... So. 663, and Eagle Iron Co. v. Malone, 149 Ala. 367, ... ...
  • Ex parte Dunlap
    • United States
    • Alabama Supreme Court
    • February 1, 1923
    ... ... even though he has pleaded to the merits of the original ... complaint. Eagle Iron Co. v. Malone, 149 Ala. 367, ... 42 So. 734; Eagle Iron Co. v. Baugh, 147 Ala. 613, ... 41 ... ...
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