Pake v. Leinkauf Bank. Co., 65 So. 139

Pake v. Leinkauf Bank. Co.

65 So. 139 | Ala. | 1914

Lead Opinion

de GRAFFENRIED, J. —

In the case of Ex parte Rebecca Jonas, infra, 64 South. 960, this court held that the decretal order removing Harry B. Pake as trustee was not such an order as would support an appeal to this court by said Harry B. Pake. For the reasons set out in the opinion in the above-cited cause, the appeal in *309the case at bar is dismissed from the docket of this court.

In this proceeding, Pillans, Hanaw & Pillans, who are not parties to this cause but who are of counsel for Harry B..Pake, who was, until his removal as trustee, one of the parties to the cause, have appealed to this court from the decree fixing the amount of their counsel fees. A person not a party to a cause cannot prosecute an appeal to this court, and for that reason the appeal of said Pillans, Hanaw & Pillans is hereby dismissed out of this court.

Appeals dismissed.

All the Justices cncur.

Rehearing

ON APPLICATION FOR REHEARING.

This is, in reality, an application for a rehearing in the case of Ex parte Rebecca Jonas, infra, 64 South. 960. In that case a majority of the members of this court expressed the opinion that the order of removal of the trustee, Harry B. Pake, was not a final de: cree, in that it settled no substantial equity in the cause. In that case this court did not, as is now contended by counsel for appellants on this application for rehearing, indicate that there could be only one final decree in a cause pending in the chancery court within the meaning of section 2837 of the Code of 1907. The contrary was well understood by each member of this court. In truth the opinion in that case places emphasis upon the fact that, for a decree to be final within the meaning of the above section of the Code, it must settle some of the substantial merits or equities in the cause. A majority of the members of this court, however, were and are of the opinion, for the reasons declared in the above case, that, when a trust estate for the benefit of creditors is being administered in the chancery court under the pro*310visions of our statutes, an order removing tbe trustee is a mere incident to tbe administration of tbe trust, in no way concerns any of tbe substantial merits or equities of tbe cause, and is therefore not sucb a final decree as will support an appeal.

2. All of tbe members of this court, however, are of tbe opinion that tbe chancellor was, for tbe. reasons set forth by him in bis order of removal, justified in making tbe order removing tbe trustee.

Tbe application for a rehearing is overruled.

Overruled.