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Collins Paving Co. v. Holseapple

Supreme Court of Alabama
May 29, 1930
128 So. 599 (Ala. 1930)

Opinion

8 Div. 147.

May 29, 1930.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Lauderdale County; J. Fred Johnson, Jr., Judge.

Jas. C. Roberts and C. P. Almon, both of Florence, for appellant.

In view of the decision, it is not necessary that brief be here set out.

Mitchell Hughston and Bradshaw Barnett, all of Florence, for appellees.

The order of the court overruling motion to set aside judgment by default is not appealable. Mosaic Templars v. Hall, 220 Ala. 305, 124 So. 879. The appeal was taken too late, and must be dismissed.


The record discloses judgment by default against appellant on January 8, 1929, and appeal on July 25, 1929. Without more, the record would present a question of jurisdiction. A judgment by default and motion to set same aside do not suspend the running of the statute. Childers v. Samoset Cotton Mills, 213 Ala. 292, 104 So. 641; Shipp et al. v. Shelton, 193 Ala. 658, 69 So. 102.

And the mere order of the court overruling a motion to set aside a judgment by default is not appealable. Mosaic Templars of America v. Hall, 220 Ala. 305, 124 So. 879; Ex parte Gay, 213 Ala. 5, 104 So. 898.

The motion of date of May 7, 1929, did not recite that it was under the four months' statute, section 9521, Code; nor were the required initial steps in the proceedings taken for rehearings under said statute and essential to jurisdictions — a presentation of the petition to the judge for the necessary supersedeas, sections 9521, 9523, 9525, Code; Hurt v. Knox (Ala. Sup.) 126 So. 110. It was not, therefore, a continuation of the original proceeding, and not the commencement of a new action. Ex parte Johnson Seats, 60 Ala. 429; Martin McTyer v. Hudson, 52 Ala. 279; Renfro Bros. v. Merryman Co., 71 Ala. 196; Evans v. Wilhite, 167 Ala. 587, 52 So. 845; Hurt v. Knox, supra. And the appeal must therefore have been taken within six months of the rendition of the original judgment. And, as to this, there is nothing to review, and the appeal is dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.

ANDERSON, C. J., and SAYRE and BROWN, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Collins Paving Co. v. Holseapple

Supreme Court of Alabama
May 29, 1930
128 So. 599 (Ala. 1930)
Case details for

Collins Paving Co. v. Holseapple

Case Details

Full title:COLLINS PAVING CO. v. HOLSEAPPLE et al

Court:Supreme Court of Alabama

Date published: May 29, 1930

Citations

128 So. 599 (Ala. 1930)
128 So. 599

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