108 So. 2d 835 | Ala. | 1959
This bill was filed in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, in Equity, by J. G. McNabb and others against Trustees of Howard College, a corporation; J. D. Pittman; Edgewood Development Company; Jefferson County, Alabama; and against certain unnamed corporations and individuals.
Separate demurrers were interposed by the named respondents to the bill as amended. The trial court in a single decree overruled each of the demurrers so interposed.
From that decree the respondent, Trustees of Howard College, took an appeal to this court. When the certificate of appeal reached this court the cause was docketed as 6 Div. 269. Thereafter the respondents J. D. Pittman and Edgewood Development Company jointly appealed from the decree overruling the demurrers. The certificate of appeal which reached the clerk of this court did not contain any information tending to show that the appeal was from the decree from which the Trustees of Howard College had already appealed, so the last appeal was separately docketed as 6 Div. 277. Later the circuit clerk correctly forwarded to this court a single transcript containing all of the proceedings. The two appeals were argued together at time of submission.
The bill seeks a declaratory judgment and other relief. The decree overruled the demurrers generally without referring to the so-called "partial" demurrers. Under our holding in Rowe v. Rowe,
The only grounds of the demurrers addressed to the bill as a whole which appellants argue were well taken are those which took the point that it appears that all parties having an interest in the title of the property are not joined.
The bill does not show an absence of any interested person, but appellants contend that under our holding in Brantley v. Brantley,
Affirmed.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and GOODWYN, MERRILL and COLEMAN, JJ., concur.