Ex parte Farrell
Decision Date | 10 February 1916 |
Docket Number | 8 Div. 885 |
Citation | 71 So. 462,196 Ala. 434 |
Parties | Ex parte FARRELL. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Original application for mandamus, on the relation of Lucy Farrell, to compel the Chancellor of the Northeastern Chancery Division to annul an order dismissing an application for alimony and suit money pending an appeal. Writ denied.
Betts & Betts, of Huntsville, for appellant.
Douglass Taylor and Clarence L. Watts, both of Huntsville, for appellee.
This is an original application to this court for a writ of mandamus to be directed to the chancellor of the Northeastern chancery division, directing him to set aside and annul an order heretofore made by him, which order dismissed out of the chancery court petitioner's application for alimony and suit money pending an appeal from the chancery court decree which divorced petitioner from her husband and allowed her both permanent alimony and suit money for prosecuting and defending the divorce proceedings.
It was ruled by this court in the case of Brady v. Brady, 144 Ala. 414, 39 So. 237, that an appeal would not lie from an interlocutory order directing the payment of alimony pendente lite, and that mandamus was the proper remedy to vacate such interlocutory order or decree; and the rule has been repeatedly followed by this court in later cases. The petition to the chancellor for alimony pending the appeal and this application for mandamus, are based on the decisions in the above indicated cases. The rulings in those cases however, do not control the ruling in the case at hand. There is a final decree in this case, determining all the rights of the parties to the divorce, including the right to both permanent and temporary alimony. This decree will support an appeal; in fact, an appeal had been taken before the application was made to the chancellor. A supersedeas bond had been executed and approved, and the entire proceeding removed from the chancery court to this court. The chancery court and the chancellor had therefore lost all control over the parties and the subject-matter before the application was ever made to the chancellor. Assuredly, this court will not compel the chancellor to do what he has no authority to do. Had he issued the order as prayed, this court would have issued a mandamus prohibition, or other writ, appropriate and necessary to right the wrong. Ex parte Montgomery, 114 Ala. 115, 14 So. 365, in which case it was said, with apt reference here:
Mr. Elliott in his work above cited (section 541) says:
The same author (section 543) makes the pointed statement that:
"Where a decree...
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